Dear Michael, Thanks again for taking the time to engage with me earlier. Sorry that this is a bit of a long reply… In your comment you note: the fundamental questions remains: Why are only “religious” communities able to augment this in-group...
William Robertson Smith (source: Wikipedia) This is a reply to Martin Michael Blume’s comment [Obsolete link removed. Original url: http://jonathanmair.com/evolution-and-religion/#comment-18] to my previous post [Obsolete link removed. Original...
The explanatory power of evolutionary theory is clear. However, these days, people seem to rush to evolutionary explanations for all sorts of real and perceived human behaviours. The danger of doing this is that in going straight to the question...