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You're correct. Religious belief is an evolved memetic/genetic survival mechanism.

Those parts of the human brain were never about logic and accurate observation of the material world - so they are safe from new facts and logic for now.

Probably at some point (assuming we survie), our own genetic/cybernetic modifications will so increase our intelligence, that religion will fall away completely... but that's beyond the Singularity.




Well, assuming the Singularity itself is not a doctrine of religious faith, sometimes it sounds like one.




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