Monday, October 18, 2010

Does religion originate in the brain?

Paul Copan addresses the question.

(BTW, Angus Menuge does as well but his response apparently isn't freely available. But perhaps it overlaps with some of what he said in his debate with P.Z. Myers.)

1 comment:

  1. If it is true that we are biologically and evolutionarily "hard-wired" to believe in God, then that would seem to me to be evidence supporting Alvin Plantinga's "Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism". Assuming that God doesn't exist, it would be evidence that our cognitive faculties select for beliefs because of their survival value, not because of their truth value.

    It's funny how if you just let atheists speak long enough, they will eventually give you the rope to hang them with.

    ReplyDelete