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Is There a Religion in the Evolutionary Toolkit?
evolutionary theorists at the moment are being made into fools by assumptions that support the idea that religion might be some kind of mind virus or an anthropomorphizing brain overfitting. To imagine that they're anything other than an adaptation is really an extraordinary leap of logic so in some sense I have the feeling that whatever explains my particular trajectory through evolutionary theory has freed me from obligation to simply accepting the assumptions of my elders.