In article <piltu25ltapdgus93rsm04js4dpao57jba@4ax.com>, dh@. wrote:

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:20:04 -0800, Ted King <lodited@yahoo.com> wrote:

In article <1173041487.145183.37780@30g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:

Darwin's God
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?ref=magazine&
pag
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By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
In the world of evolutionary biology, the question is not whether God
exists but why we believe in him. Is belief a helpful adaptation or an
evolutionary accident?

Pretty interesting article. It was a little irritating that the author
would lapse into saying "religion evolved" on occasion though.

Ted

They're always evolving.

Socially evolve, yes I would agree; but the article was about biological
evolution. I don't for a second think that religions biologically evolve
(except in some extremely indirect and tangential way, possibly). I
don't think that is even what the author of article intended to say - he
uses other phrasing in other places. He just seemed to have gotten a
little sloppy - and that sloppiness irritated me a little bit because
"religion evolved" is a phrase that could be so easily misconstrued.

Ted