Epstein Secrets

On the Origin of Religion To Charles Darwin, the origin of religious belief was no mystery. "As soon as the important faculties of the imagination, won- der, and curiosity, together with some

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,

On the Origin of Religion To Charles Darwin, the origin of religious belief was no mystery. "As soon as the important faculties of the imagination, won- der, and curiosity, together with some

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,

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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,