Darwin on the "God Gene"

Darwin Catholic comments on "The God Gene." More broadly he comments on the quest for a naturalistic model of religiosity.

Tags

More like this

There's an interesting Gallup poll that compares religious fervor between nations. Here's a quick summary: Religiosity is correlated with poverty — the poorer you are, the more godly you are. I guess God really does like that poverty thing. The US is not the most religious nation, not by a long…
One of the advantages of being at ScienceBlogs is that when confronted with idiocy like this NY Times article about the genetic basis of behavior, you can count on your fellow bloggers to tear it to shreds. Thankfully, Jonah and Dave do a wonderful job. It seems every so often this sort of sloppy…
There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
[Attention Conservation Notice: About 3,500 words on the factual, scientific, and philosophical problems of a paper which was surely not intended to be taken seriously as science or philosophy. Nick Matzke comes at it from a different angle at The Panda's Thumb, and more briefly.] Evolutionary…