Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief
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Isn't It Adaptive?
Even infants make the stinction between animate and inanimate objects. We may end up seeing agents that aren't there. May be even its and ancestors and gods, but that's just a by product actually thinking that there are spirits or gods. There's a gripping power of religious experience. It involves the numans, where you just have an experience of reverential awe. I did my field work at the university of michigan biological station. Up in northern michigan. We often see northern lights, but one night it wasit was one of the most dramatic manifestations of the aurora borealis that any of us hav ever seen. Giant tongues of multi colored flame were
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