"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Sunday, January 22, 2006

On the study of Religion

Interesting interview:

Questions for Daniel C. Dennett - Interview by Deborah Solomon - New York Times:

Q: How could you, as a longtime professor of philosophy at Tufts University, write a book that promotes the idea that religious devotion is a function of biology? Why would you hold a scientist's microscope to something as intangible as belief?"

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