Here's a Friday evening paradox for you. For most atheists, the abundance of suffering in the world is a pretty clinching argument against the existence of a moral god. Yet religion seems to thrive in places where suffering is greatest (the graphic shows the correlation across US states between a basket of 'suffering' measures and belief in God).What gives? Kurt Gray, a psychologist at Harvard, h
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December 5, 2009
Someone to blame when disaster strikes
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June 13, 2009
Out of control: how anxiety over loss of control can increase belief in God… and government!
The recent meeting of the Convention of the Association for Psychological Science had a session on the cognitive science of religion. One of the presentations was from Kristin Laurin on work by her and Aaron C Kay at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.I didn't see the session, but I have dug up the papers describing their work, and it's corking stuff.What they set out to investigate was wheth
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