162. Benjamin Friedman — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
The Michael Shermer Show
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Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection
The tension between darwinism and, say, christian belief is acute in the way that it wouldn't have been for these earlier thinkers. It would not have occurred to people to think that religion and science were on the opposite sides of a debate. But did come about as a result of darwin. And i've always had the view tat i it's a result of the randomness that if if you thought that the genetic mutations that darwin a places it the centr of his theory.
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