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Are Evolution And Belief Incompatible?

Are Evolution And Belief Incompatible? | Science News | Scoop.it

A few years ago, Sir David Attenborough seemed to think so: Attenborough recently changed his tune: I don't think an understanding and an acceptance of the 4 billion-year-long history of life is any way inconsistent with a belief in a supreme being. And I am not so confident as to say that I am an atheist.

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"Religion is as Human as the Flint Ax and the Computer"

"Religion is as Human as the Flint Ax and the Computer" | Science News | Scoop.it

Toolmaking made us human. Early hominids understood cause and effect and came to believe in unseen gods and spirits as causes for life's great mysteries, including illness and death.

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Why are people friendly?

Why are people friendly? | Science News | Scoop.it

Without selection between competing groups, the advantages of co-operation are not great enough to make it spread, or maintain itself within a population. Our benevolent instincts are the products of our social nature, and to analyse human society as essentially an association of individuals is not just morally but scientifically wrong, since that kind of analysis doesn't predict our behaviour accurately.

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