Comments on: From ape to . . . theologist http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/from-ape-to-theologist.htm smart & funny romantic comedies! Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: KirstenMortensen.com » Blog Archive » “Secular sermons” http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/from-ape-to-theologist.htm/comment-page-1#comment-371 KirstenMortensen.com » Blog Archive » “Secular sermons” Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:03:22 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=300#comment-371 [...] In the New Statesman, John Gray critiques both Wolpert (Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast–I blogged about that book yesterday) and Daniel C Dennett, Breaking the Spell: religion as a natural phenomenon. [...] [...] In the New Statesman, John Gray critiques both Wolpert (Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast–I blogged about that book yesterday) and Daniel C Dennett, Breaking the Spell: religion as a natural phenomenon. [...]

]]> By: University of No Where http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/from-ape-to-theologist.htm/comment-page-1#comment-370 University of No Where Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:17:03 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=300#comment-370 I think they just made a hasty inference there: having an evolutionary advantage does not necessarily mean that God wired us that way, or that believing in God is beneficial. For instance, we may just have evolved into believing in God from believing in rocks, and that's still an advantage, because it is possible that believing rocks makes us happy as believing in God does. That said, evolution, I think, does not imply anything religious. I think they just made a hasty inference there: having an evolutionary advantage does not necessarily mean that God wired us that way, or that believing in God is beneficial. For instance, we may just have evolved into believing in God from believing in rocks, and that’s still an advantage, because it is possible that believing rocks makes us happy as believing in God does.

That said, evolution, I think, does not imply anything religious.

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