re: #8 Ayeless in Ghazi

There is strong evidence that belief in god stems from humans’ pattern-matching ability; the same capacity that allows us leaps of logic, that allows us to conceptualize about things that don’t exist yet or can’t immediately be proved leads to belief in god and the supernatural, as well.

It’s not likely it can be gotten rid of. Even among supposed atheists, you’ll find a lot who believe in ‘luck’ or some other supernatural belief.

What can happen, what is relatively easy, is to convince people that where religion and science differ, the religion is at fault.

Making people march all the way to the end of Dennett’s aisle is extremely difficult.

But it is relatively easy to get people to accept that where science and religion are in conflict, it is the understanding of the religious belief that is in error.