Andy Thomson: Why We Believe in Gods
Andy Thomson gives his talk titled ‘Why We Believe in Gods’ at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Filmed and edited by Josh Timonen.
See more at http://RichardDawkins.netAlso see Richard Dawkins talk from this convention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1iZW…
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The scientific aspect of religious predisposition is very interesting. Dawkins only briefly touched on the neurology of faith in ‘The God Delusion’, but he came to the same conclusion as Thomson, that it had to have resulted from evolutionary instincts.
good post, I’ll have to add you to my blogroll.