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Religious belief is everywhere. Why so pervasive, ubiquitous across diverse human cultures? What motivates the universal belief in things we cannot see? Some say the reason is ‘God’—assuming God exists, then surely God would have made it so that humans would have religion. Others assert there are entirely natural reasons to expect the widespread belief in God.
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Bruce MacFarlane Hood is a Canadian-born British experimental psychologist and philosopher who specialises in developmental cognitive neuroscience.
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