Is God an Accident?
Paul Bloom, December 2005, Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/12/is-god-an-accident/304425Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe.
Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon.
One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena.
And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry.
Alex's commnet: A 2005 article but still amazing.
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