X-Message-Number: 26483
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 10:30:00 -0400
From: Keith Henson <>
Subject: Pizer and religions

Before people get too deep in these arguments, I think it would be 
worthwhile to understand why people have religions at all, and why those in 
state societies are different from those of more primitive peoples?

I won't say the question has been entirely answered, but reading Pascal 
Boyer's book _Religion Explained_ is a step in the right direction.

Cognitive science and evolutionary psychology are where answers to such 
questions are going to come.

Keith Henson

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