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C.R. Hallpike
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“the Darwinian world of nature, however, which they claim is the only one, there can be no such things as rights, either for humans or for animals, but only the struggle for survival in which we have no more significance than ants or wasps.”
― Do We Need God to Be Good?
― Do We Need God to Be Good?
“The idea of people “inventing” religious beliefs to “provide the needed social links” comes out of the same rationalist stable as the claim that kings invented religious beliefs to justify their oppression of their subjects and that capitalists did the same to justify their exploitation of their workers. Religious belief simply doesn’t work like that. It is true, however, that what he calls universal and missionary religions started appearing in the first millennium BC.”
― Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense about Primitive Society
― Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense about Primitive Society
“Ignoring these drastic limitations on our knowledge has meant that many so-called ‘adaptive explanations’ are merely pseudo-scientific ‘Just So Stories’, often made up without any anthropological knowledge, that have increasingly brought evolutionary psychology into disrepute.”
― Do We Need God to be Good?: An Anthropologist Considers the Evidence
― Do We Need God to be Good?: An Anthropologist Considers the Evidence
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