Darwin's God

New York Times by Robin Marantz Henig | Mar. 4, 2007 (Special Report)

Call it God; call it superstition; call it, as Atran does, "belief in hope beyond reason" -- whatever you call it, there seems an inherent human drive to believe in something transcendent, unfathomable and otherworldly, something beyond the reach or understanding of science. "Why do we cross our fingers during turbulence, even the most atheistic among us?" asked Atran when we spoke at his Upper West Side pied-à-terre in January. Atran, who is 55, is an ... Full Story »

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Dale Penn
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 by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

Practically tailor made for NewsTrust's Atheism and Faith discussion. This is an excellent article (and long - but fascinating if you have any interest in the current thinking of science on the matter of God) with depth to spare. It focuses primarily on two trains of thought within the field of evolutionary biology (adaptionists and byproduct theorists) and discusses how both of these fit within the context of the current religion/neo-atheist discussion (not NewsTrust's but society's).

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