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Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Is Religion Related to Morality?

Religion has a strong binding function. It gives some solace to people who want to know what happens after death, because we have the sense of mortality that hangs as a big cloud over our head. So i think it serves some general social functionary. You may have an evolutionary process where it's more effective for the society to be throwing old women under the busr or what have you. Do you see what i'm i think m the biologist looks at everything er, especially something that is as pervasive as religion. We look at that as must serve a function, otherwise why would humans have ave this sort of desireo forming religions? And so the function that i am at the

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