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Based on the Reproductive Religiosity Model, it was hypothesized that characteristics associated with short-term mating strategies would be negatively correlated with higher levels of religious commitment. This hypothesis was tested among undergraduate students in two different studies at a small, evangelical, liberal arts college. A strong negative correlation was found in the first study between...
Robert N. McCauley's new book Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not (2011) presents a new paradigm for investigating the relationship between science and religion by exploring the cognitive foundations of religious belief and scientific knowledge. McCauley's contention is that many of the differences and disagreements regarding religion and science are the product of distinct features of human...
One of the central tenets of Christian theology is the denial of self for the benefit of another. However, many views on the evolution of altruism presume that natural selection inevitably leads to a self‐seeking human nature and that altruism is merely a façade to cover underlying selfish motives. I argue that human altruism is an emergent characteristic that cannot be reduced to any one particular...
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