David Pleins: Evolving God: Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion

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INTERVIEW February 11, 2013
The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin
Was the great scientist a “proto-None”?
By ELIZABETH DRESCHER
http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/science/6822

Evolving God: Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion
by David Pleins
Bloomsbury, 2013



"I explore the secret notebooks that Darwin wrote after his voyage. In these he searches for a materialist theory of religion. I also tackle his later application of this line of thinking in the Descent of Man, where he offers an evolutionary view of the "Golden Rule" and an anthropological view of religion's development."

"Darwin made key discoveries concerning the role and function of religion as a natural evolutionary phenomenon."