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The Atheist Experience 26.46 11-13-22 Forrest Valkai and Jim Barrows

The Atheist Experience

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The Origins of Religion in Early Humans

I thought if religion is so ingrained in our society from basically forever, they did actually begin before like homo sapiens sapiens. There's this kind of this old joke that you know anytime an archaeologist doesn't know what something is or what it's for. We can chalk it up to a religious thing. Here's this building that we don't know what it is probably a temple right like and of course this isn't always true like this. The problem is, there's a huge history of like ceremonial and symbolic behaviors in humans even in other species. But how can we possibly say what is or is not a real.

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