Professor Sapolsky Explains the Origin of Religion Part 1/2 (by RichardDawkinsdotcom)

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8GFQRAlDmE&NR=1

Notes:

Those with schizophrenia were perhaps the ones who saw the burning bush talk and were responsible for other religious visions (e.g. Jesus back from the dead etc.)

Those with OCD likely came up with religious rituals.

People with temporal lobe epilepsy have uncontrolled tendencies to write and become obsessed with religious and philosophical subjects. One person suspected to have this disorder was St. Paul.

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