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Darwin's Apple Darwin's Apple by Mitchell Diamond
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“Consciousness is trailing behind, watching the activity of the emotional unconscious and pestering, “Don’t forget me; listen, I have something to say here.”
Mitchell Diamond, Darwin's Apple: The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
“Religion stimulates our emotions and suppresses consciousness; therefore religion is adaptive.”
Mitchell Diamond, Darwin's Apple: The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
“If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery.”
Mitchell Diamond, Darwin's Apple: The Evolutionary Biology of Religion