Bill McBlueState
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Fri Jan-02-09 01:59 PM
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38. The central claim of just about any religion is that at least one god exists |
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If religious believers think that there are gods, but there aren't, then they believe something false.
Anyway, I think the body of your post is true: Human beings are hardwired to have religious faith. But like a lot of the things we're predisposed to believe, the proposition that gods exist seems to be false.
For a less controversial example, we're hardwired to believe that when something's position changes relative to the horizon, it's moving. The realization by early astronomers that this is not the case for the Sun is thought of as progress. If, like the Earth-centered universe, belief in gods is also an artifact of the way our brains evolved, we'll be better off at least trying to overcome that.
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