sábado, noviembre 26, 2005

¿Es Dios es accidente?

Un gran ensayo de Paul Bloom -en inglés- y publicado en la edición de diciembre de The Atlantic. La presentación nada más:

"Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe. Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question ..."

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