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Originally Posted by boxcar
Well...here's a chance to make up. Do you believe what Jerry Coyne said, " "We still remain profoundly ignorant of how religion came to dominate our species"? Are you truly a dyed-in-the-wool agnostic on this subject? Are you "profoundly ignorant", as he says you are?
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In my reply to Actor (#4043), I responded to the first entry, entitled "Origins of religion...Why do human beings tend to be religious? The answer is found in Darwinian evolution"... by citing champion-of-Darwinism Jerry Coyne ("Why Evolution Is True") from his own blog, which you restated above. You don't need to plant your scriptural flag in the ground. Just have Coyne's "profoundly ignorant" challenge Actor's "the answer is found...".
No, I am not "agnostic about this subject". I am with Augustine...“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” I have found this to be true most of all when experiencing the self-sacrificing, unconditional love I have for my wife and children and them for me, which in my reading (your interlocutor once compared his love ["behavior pattern"] for his wife to his "love" for his car), hearing, comparing and contrasting, most corresponds (analogously) to the inner life of the Trinity, as opposed to the other major core explanations for my existence from Judaism, Islam, the Far East, and materialism, et.al.
