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Reasonable Doubts Podcast

rd133 Your God Detector is Busted

Reasonable Doubts Podcast

Jeremy

Science & Medicine, Agnosticism, Religion, Humanism, Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Creationism, Skeptic, Criticism, Biblical, Intelligentdesign, Freethinker, Free, Doubt, Atheist, Funny, Apologist, Critical, Apologetics, Thinking, Agnostic, Atheism, Fundamentalism, Bible, Counterapologetics, Philosophy, Nontheism, Reason, Naturalism, Philosophical, Reasonabledoubts, Other, Social Sciences, Epistemology, Theism, Society & Culture, Ethics, Secular, State, Church, Evolution

4.8879 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2014

⏱️ ? minutes

Summary

Our cognitive faculties evolved to help us detect agents in our environment and to predict the content of their minds but those same faculties also generate beliefs in supernatural minds and divine agents. While this seems to suggest that religious intuitions are untrustworthy by-products of ordinary cognitive processes, Cognitive psychologists like Justin Barrett argue the existence of these "god-faculties" in the brain should not make the atheist more comfortable with their skepticism. In fact, Barrett believes they actually provide a defeater for atheism.

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