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Good behavioral science has room for theology: Any room for God?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Robert B. Glassman
Robert B. Glassman*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL60045http://campus.lakeforest.edu/~glassman/
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glassman@lfc.edu
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Abstract:

This excellent outline of evolutionary hypotheses is compromised by severe reductionism. Other writings succeed in granting theism ontological significance without compromising rigor. The discussion of counterintuitiveness neglects coherence in memory. Bearing in mind our severely limited working memory capacity, susceptibility to religious mythologies may comprise an adaptive heuristic approach to summarizing the contingencies of the most far-reaching of life's problems.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 737 - 738
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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