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Podcast: Skeptics in the Pub Online Podcast
Episode: Atheism, Religion, and Human Nature: The Evolutionary Puzzles of Faith and Atheism - Dr Will Gervais
Description: We’re all members of a very strange species. But where lots of human peculiarities – from art to warfare and beyond – have analogues across the animal kingdom, we stand alone as the only religious species. Yet, within our otherwise religious species, atheism is currently flourishing in large parts of the world. I’ll discuss research highlighted in my recent book (Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species), showing how people’s intuitions about morality lead them to assume the worst of atheists – with problematic implications for our scientific understanding of atheism, religion, and human nature.
Will Gervais...