Big Gods Book Club #6: Concluding Thoughts
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In what follows I’ll make
‘Big Gods’ book club #5: Remarks on the two puzzles
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I like Ara’s way of
‘Big Gods’ book club #4: Alternative explanations?
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- atheists flout a “pre
‘Big Gods’ book club #3 : Testing more specific hypotheses and going beyond correlations in the origins and evolution of religious beliefs
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In his insightful précis,
‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
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Norenzayan’s Big Gods
‘Big Gods’ book club #1 — Skeptical thoughts
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Be that as it may, I am
A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
Two Puzzles
The first puzzle is large-scale human cooperation. Up to about 12,000 years ago all human beings lived in relatively small bands of foragers. Today, virtually everyone, more than 99.99