How and why we evolved the ability to believe

Hot on the heels of that last lecture I posted, you should probably watch this one to get the other half of the puzzle. Andy Thomson at American Atheists ’09 delivered a fantastic speech explaining how it is that we came to evolve the ability to believe those behaviours and edicts codified by the religious experiences of others, no matter from what atypical neurology they were wrought.

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How and why we evolved the ability to believe
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2 thoughts on “How and why we evolved the ability to believe

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    Well, I think you just got credit, being that you took it.  I suppose I should have mentioned that you showed it to me immediately after I watched the other one though.

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