[extropy-chat] Putting God to Rest

Mon Apr 23 16:57:41 UTC 2007

At 11:29 AM 4/23/2007 -0400, Keith wrote:

>We might be as little as 5 years or perhaps even less from understanding
>where, why and how such feelings arise.  There is a *lot* of money being
>spend on autism and I suspect from what Tooby and Boyer said last week that
>the path to understanding autism will also give us an answer to why humans
>have religions at all.

Further to this, here's a nice story I published by Pam Sargent about 
a machine that immunizes people against religion:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/907

Damien Broderick 