Epstein Secrets

me researchers suggest that cog- nitive tendencies led to religion, which then took hold and spread because it raised fitness. But others, such as Boyer, counter that this adaptationist explanation is itself light on data. "It is often said that reli- gion encourages or prescribes solidarity withi

al properties of our cognitive systems that lean toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a god," says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans,

me researchers suggest that cog- nitive tendencies led to religion, which then took hold and spread because it raised fitness. But others, such as Boyer, counter that this adaptationist explanation is itself light on data. "It is often said that reli- gion encourages or prescribes solidarity withi

onal properties of our cognitive systems that lean toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a got says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans,

me researchers suggest that cog- nitive tendencies led to religion, which then took hold and spread because it raised fitness. But others, such as Boyer. counter that this adaptationist explanation is itself light on data. "It is often said that reli- gion encourages or prescribes solidarity withi

al properties of our cognitive systems that lean toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a god," says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans,