"There's never been a time like today where religion is seen with such disdain and disrespect by intellectual elites," he says. "I concede the ugliness of much of human history ... but there are many things in religion that I think do underpin much of our modern morality" He adds: "It's entirely possible we could find really good evidence for your hypothesis."
Matt Ridley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Evolution of Everything. Ridley applies the lens of emergent order to a wide variety of phenomena including culture, morality, religion, commerce, innovation, and consciousness.