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Offline Ford Prefect

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Religion and behavioral science
I read a great article in the Boston Globe that addresses exactly what I've always argued in this debate:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/29/supernatural_selection/
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Offline Ace

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Re: Religion and behavioral science
The funny thing is how costly signalling, intended to improve the reproductive success of the individual, has turned me so off to so many otherwise attractive and accessible women.

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Offline Bobboau

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Re: Religion and behavioral science
I concure with the conjecture presented within this article.
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Offline Nuke

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Re: Religion and behavioral science
it does make some very intresting points. consider it science's revenge for intelegent design :D
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Offline Ford Prefect

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Re: Religion and behavioral science
That's one of the things I was chuckling about as I read this; the irony of science and religion be united under a single context, but for once, on scientific terms and not spiritual ones.
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel