Divinity Imagined

By Staff
Published on April 28, 2008

As the divide between believer and nonbeliever grows larger, science has become a weapon used by both sides. An article from New Scientistcites the evolution of the human brain as evidence that the world’s religions are products of human imagination. Maurice Bloch, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, argues that belief in a divine being emerged between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, coinciding with the human capacity to imagine.

 —Morgan Winters

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