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032 Modern Discipleship with Stone Age Minds (with Justin Barrett)

Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation

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Are We Adapted to This Stone Age Niche?

David Frum's new book focuses on three traits that set humans apart from other animals. He says they include being hyper social, gathering and using information at an entirely different level and then having self control in a certain way. But these fundamental aspects of our human nature are falling into a lot of pressure, he says. "We're adapted to this stone age niche in one sense, and yet our environment is really taxing those"

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