<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4d5129a2-0c94-4c86-95b5-3c9e7ed79a7d/0F0A32A4-989C-4120-AB14-4EC08FDBEDDF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.hugoguzman.com/2009/09/the-ironic-origin-of-humans-belief-in-god/" href="http://www.hugoguzman.com/2009/09/the-ironic-origin-of-humans-belief-in-god/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.hugoguzman.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hugoguzman.com/2009/09/the-ironic-origin-of-humans-belief-in-god/"><P>I came across an <A target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/richard-alleyne/6146411/Humans-evolved-to-believe-in-God.html" linkindex="18">article in the Daily Telegraph</A> that focuses on a recent study conducted by researchers at Bristol University. The study suggests that human belief in God is essentially an evolutionary trait in that groups of humans that held such beliefs were more prone to cooperation and therefore had higher rates of survival and procreation. Simply put, believing in god has become part of human DNA, molded by countless generations of naturally selected religious lineages.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hugoguzman.com/2009/09/the-ironic-origin-of-humans-belief-in-god/"><P>This assertion flies in the face of the current line of thinking held by prominent atheists like Richard Dawkins, who believe that religious beliefs continue to permeate society mainly because of poor education and childhood indoctrination. In other words, folks like Dawkins believe that religion is a question of nurture, not nature.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hugoguzman.com/2009/09/the-ironic-origin-of-humans-belief-in-god/"><P>While the “nature vs. nature” facet of this study is intriguing, the thing that really piqued my interest was the delicious irony of it all.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0F0A32A4-989C-4120-AB14-4EC08FDBEDDF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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