Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Religion and Science and Morality
Morality originated, let's say, in small group settings during our evolution. But when the society's got too big, which is like couple of thousand people, as nowadaysad, we could not maintain that system. And so religions installd guide lines and provided a god who was watching us all the time - aniting that may have helped set up large societies. So morality is where i ii is not. Religion is not the source of morality.
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