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The Biology of Religion

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Author and philosopher Daniel Dennett recently gave an interview discussing his newly released book, Breaking the Spell.

As a biologist, I have a few problems with the meme concept as originally articulated by Dawkins and disseminated by Dennett and others. Nevertheless, the interview brings up very interesting cross-connections about religion in terms of biology and evolution.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2007/1812733.htm