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Jul 31st 2008
From The Economist print edition
Religious diversity may be caused by disease
SOME people, notably Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford
University, regard religion as a disease. It spreads, they suggest, like a
virus, except that the “viruses” are similar to those infecting computers
—bits of cultural software that take over the hardware of the brain and
make it do irrational things.
Corey Fincher, of the University of New Mexico, has a different |
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