Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-12-2008

[andrewducker]

• Why do we believe?
  Fascinating piece looking at the evidence that human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena, and they they do so as an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Highly Recommended.
  (tags: religion philosophy psychology science)
• The State of the Web - Summer 2008
  Very funny image. Especially the bit about the internet being under attack
  (tags: 2008 web2.0 funny art internet)

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

I found it impossible to get past the introduction because it spent most of its time in attempts at justifying why Americans are right to believe in God (or whatever) and it's only those Europeans that are weirdos.

But having just read this yesterday, I find this article disturbingly close to having a point.

[andrewducker]

Interesting. I didn't see it as justifying that Americans were _right_ - I saw it as reframing things by showing that their attitude was more common. The article, as a whole, certainly isn't pro-religion.