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Title: Humans 'hardwired for religion'
Source: Guardian
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1864748,00.html
Published: Apr 18, 2007
Author: James Randerson
Post Date: 2007-04-18 09:33:10 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 648
Comments: 14

Humans 'hardwired for religion'

James Randerson

Monday September 4, 2006

Guardian Unlimited

The battle by scientists against "irrational" beliefs such as creationism is ultimately futile, a leading experimental psychologist said today.

The work of Bruce Hood, a professor at Bristol University, suggests that magical and supernatural beliefs are hardwired into our brains from birth, and that religions are therefore tapping into a powerful psychological force.

"I think it is pointless to think that we can get people to abandon their belief systems because they are operating at such a fundamental level," said Prof Hood. "No amount of rational evidence is going to be taken on board to get people to abandon those ideas."

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#10. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

I agree. As social animals, we imitate each other -- most learning is by imitation. Imitation minimizes knowledge costs, and when groups compete strong imitation maximizes response time and response effectiveness. An articulation of a religion is the cognitive ivy that adorns the real edifice, much more rationalization than reasoning.

If religion has endured, it probably has survival value. In revolutions, the credo of the revolution, though perhaps not citing a god, performs the same psychological function as a religion.

The article is correct to place quotation marks around "irrational." The process is arational. Ironically, rationalism itself is arational.

"No amount of rational evidence is going to be taken on board to get people to abandon those ideas."

True. Although it is not clear here, Hood may believe the problem is one of knowledge, which it is not. Consequences, not knowledge, change people.

I have an article from the Jerusalem Post that claims the MRIs of Palestinian terrorist’s show malformations.

It might be true, although calling them malformations may be just a bit of chauvinism.

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