The Believing Primate Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
- 365p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Hand of God, Mind of Man: Punishment and Cognition in the Evolution of Cooperation 26 Dominic Johnson andjesse Bering 2. Religiosity as Mental Time-travel: Cognitive Adaptations for Religious Behavior Joseph Bulbulia 3. Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology 76 Justin Barren 4. Is Religion Adaptive? Yes, No, Neutral. But Mostly We Don`t Know 100 Peter J. Richerson and Lesley Newson 5. Religious Belief as an Evolutionary Accident 118 Paul Bloom 6. Explaining Belief in the Supernatural: Some Thoughts on Paul Bloom`s `Religious Belief as an Evolutionary Accident` 128 Peter van Inwagen 7. Games Scientists Play 139 Alvin Plantinga 8. Scientific Explanations of Religion and the Justification of Religious Belief MichaelJ. Murray 9. Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining and Explaining Away 179 Michael J. Murray and Andrew Goldberg 10. Explaining Religious Experience 200 Charles Taliaferro n. Humanness in their Hearts: Where Science and Religion Fuse 215 Del Ratzsch 12. Theology and Evolution: How Much Can Biology Explain? 246 John Haught 13. Cognitive Science and the Evolution of Religion: A Philosophical and Theological Appraisal 265 Nancey Murphy 14. Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion 278 Jonathan Haidt 15. Does Naturalism Warrant a Moral Belief in Universal Benevolence and Human Rights? 292 Christian Smith 16. Evolutionary Social Constructivism: Narrowing(but Not Yet Bridging) the Gap 318 David Shan Wilson