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Originally Posted by thekremlin
My point is that it is too costly to be purely vestigal; you haven't addressed this point at all.
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Missed that underlying point. I don't have the book with me, but he does mention that it is indeed a very costly thing for a society to do without "good reason". I'm in the middle of that part of the book now, but he does outline some other explanations (besides "religion is good, that's why") and possibilities as to why we pursue such endeavors. Really, I think you'd enjoy the book. Dennett is definitely an atheist but he's a philosopher by trade, and a very scientific one, so he gives all possibilities a very fair shake.