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The Brain, Home of the Gods
2020
Human Ethology Bulletin
Most of the major religions in the world teach their followers that god(s) created man. An evolutionary neuroscientific approach to religion however suggests a reversed causal relationship: our brains created the gods. Darwin, in the Descent of Man, already posited that religion and spirituality might be the product of our brain organization, and that man thus created god(s). Indeed, he stated that religious beliefs might only develop after a '[...] considerable advance in the reasoning powers
doi:10.22330/he/35/075-078
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