re: Where angels no longer fear to tread
Mar 19th 2008, From The Economist print edition

so they wish to develop a framework that explains the persistence of
“religious attitudes and practices”,
which we once believed would perish as obsolete,
in human culture.

but why stop at limiting the scope of this framework to religion?
if we keep our concepts flexible and abstract enough,
they will also yield insight into the emergence of
“scientific attitudes and practices”
in human culture.

the economist writes,

Science and religion have often been at loggerheads.
Now the former has decided to resolve the problem
by trying to explain the existence of the latter

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