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Re: How Religion Hijacks Neurocortical Mechanisms, and Why So Many Believe in a Deity

Alright. Well, thanks for the bump. Your idea is parallel in a few ways to the "god as first parent" concept I've raised before. We see all life as coming from previous life... we have our parents, they had their parents, and they had theirs. If you follow it back far enough, the "first parent" is god.

It still doesn't explain where god came from, but is interesting in terms of the psychology and neurophysiology of belief.



Since there hasn't been a tremendous amount of participation in this thread, I'll try a slightly different approach and offer you a new video.

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19 March 2009. World famous philosopher and humanist Daniel Dennett speaks at Conway Hall, providing "A Darwinian Perspective on Religions: Past, Present and Future".

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