After a Crisis of Faith, Finding a New Secular Mission

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6. That's a good way to put it.

But in the end my answer to that question doesn't mean that that it is congenital that I don't believe. I think it probably is congenital but there's no science to confirm or deny it. Therefore, I have to withhold any firm opinion either way. I have to say, I think it is, but I don't really know. I can convince myself that there are counter-examples, too.

This is why Dennett's idea to study these things may be an important one. It's one reason why I support him fairly strongly here.

Another aspect of the claim is that it tends to delve fairly deeply into the murky waters of evolutional psychology which is a controversial subject in its own right.

So, I have to just shrug in spite that I personally think it very well may be true.