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Title: Reaching into Plato's Cave – Exploring the tensions between Christianity and the 21st century
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Why a mechanistic explanation for religious belief/unbelief in humans can actually complement a thoroughly Christian faith.
Over the last two weeks, Dr. Will Gervais unpacked his research looking at how humans — as a species, as groups of nations, and even as individuals — build a religious belief system. He identified a variety of contribut...
The Dual-Inheritance Model explains so much about the emergence of religion in Homo sapiens millions of years ago, as well as the persistence (growth?) of atheism in a world dominated by religious humans.
This week, we bring you the second half of our conversation with Dr. Will Gervais. We return to the kitchen table where he pulled...
It took billions of years and billions of life forms, but religion eventually emerged in one species, and filled the globe; and yet disbelief persists?
Today’s guest — Dr. Will Gervais (Brunel University, London UK) — has recently published an exceptional book: Disbelief: origins of atheism in a religious species. In it, he ad...
… on science, religious belief, and the meaning of life.
Our guest — Dr. Philip Clayton — is an exceptionally credentialed and highly acclaimed philosopher, speaker and author standing at the interface between science and religion. In this book, he teamed up with a non-theist — Claudia Pearce — to write a book which addresses that inte...