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May 27, 2012

PZ Myers: Not Functioning as a Scientist on the Subject of Religion

You Want Evidence that Religion is Bad for Our Species? OPEN YOUR EYES.

October 20, 2012

Robert Bellah on Religion, Atheism, and the World and All its Contents

What does theology--as distinct from the scholarly study of religion--contribute to our understanding of religion from an evolutionary perspective?

March 30, 2013

Primatologist Frans de Waal Responds To His New Atheist Critics

Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives.Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives

March 18, 2013

Is Religion Useful? A Test Involving Common Pool Resource Groups

Far from “poisoning everything”, religions often plays an integral role in regulating the practical aspects of life.Religion puzzles the nonbeliever in part because it seems to lack utility. How can belief in supernatural agents and costly practices such as ritual sacrifice produce practical benefits?