Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Essay
Nature 455, 1038-1039 (23 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/4551038a; Published online 22 October 2008
Open Innovation Challenges
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Scientist / Sr. Scientist - Biopharmaceutics
- Syngene International
- Bangalore, Karnataka 560099 India
New Business Manager
- ResMed
- Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Being human: Religion: Bound to believe?
Pascal Boyer1
- Pascal Boyer is in the Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA, and is the author of Religion Explained.
Email: pboyer@wustl.edu
Top of page
Abstract
Atheism will always be a harder sell than religion, Pascal Boyer explains, because a slew of cognitive traits predispose us to faith.
Is religion a product of our evolution? The very question makes many people, religious or otherwise, cringe, although for different reasons.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.
