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lil · 4138 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Belief in Intelligent Design is an adaptive behaviour?
I agree. Shermer calls it adapting to find patterns in nature -- and a further adaptation would be the brain's need to interpret phenomena so that they are explainable. He also implies that as soon as you find patterns in nature, you stop seeing the phenomena that do not fit the pattern. Sometimes, rather than looking for what fits a pattern, I look for what doesn't - but my brain starts to melt when I do that.