It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
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Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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