Monday, August 30, 2010

Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous? : NPR





Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous?










August 30, 2010


























August 30, 2010



Jesse Bering's mother died of cancer on a Sunday, in her own bed, at 9 o'clock at night. Bering and his siblings closed her door and went downstairs, hoping they might somehow get some sleep.

It was a long, hard night, but around 7 a.m., something happened: The wind chimes outside his mother's window started to chime.

Bering remembers waking to the tinkle of these bells, a small but distinct sound in an otherwise silent house. And he remembers thinking that those bells carried a very specific message.





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