Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Nature, evolution, religion, cognitive dissonance

Vast majority of people believe in a god of some sort. The beliefs are not true, but they are effective. The numbers indicate that believes (in terms of reproduction) are highly successful and represent the majority of humanity. It's amazing that nature managed to generate people capable of both logical and belief in religion. Innovations of evolution like cognitive dissonance made this possible.

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