http://www.nicholas-wade.com The Faith Instinct, Before the Dawn Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:17:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.nicholas-wade.com/2009/10/question-1/ http://www.nicholas-wade.com/2009/10/question-1/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:49 +0000 nicholas http://www.nicholas-wade.com/?p=93 The Faith Instinct argues that a propensity for religious behavior is innate, meaning that such an inclination is present through heredity in the neural circuits of the mind. Does this seem a reasonable view, or have some readers never been aware of any such feeling?

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