Monday, September 19, 2005

An Anthropological Oddity

The idea of God isn't a supernatural idea. If the idea of God were supernatural, then religion would be true. The idea of God, the idea, the representation of something supernatural is not itself supernatural. If it were, then we [anthropologists] would be out of business.

Dan Sperber


This guy seems to have become stuck while jumping between his fishbowl of human experience and the "outside" scientific perspective. Or, rather, something has stayed stuck to him.

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