Video|God, Religion and Weeping Statues
All too often folks outside of the academy have a characterature of how scientists treat religion. Here are two widely published researchers who provide a very interesting exploration of how community and belief, evolution and the mind interact. Michael Murray has a Ph.D. from Notre Dame, teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and works with the Templeton Foundation. Paul Bloom studies our common-sense understanding of ourselves at Yale University.
- Michael’s latest book, “The Believing Primate”
- What does the psychology of religion have to do with biology?
- Paul on belief in God as an accidental byproduct of evolution
- Can psychology discredit theism?
- How can we distinguish miracles from purely natural events?
- If we’re wired to be polytheists, should that worry monotheists?
