Evidence of God in Culture?

Wow, just a fascinating article on this topic.  A paper has been released, Religion, religiousness and fertility in the U.S. and in Europe where “the authors observe that the United States is much more religious than Europe as a whole, and the average American woman is much more fertile than the average European woman. From this many intellectuals have adduced that these two characters exhibit a causal relationship so that the greater fertility of American women can be attributed to their greater religiosity.”

The author of the article cites the above paper, noting the decline of Europe culturally may result from the godlessness that exists in their culture.

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For quite some time, I’ve wondered why so many people can believe in God (or god) and yet we have such a strange disinterest in a relationship with Him. Experimental philosophy has given us clues.

In a recent article from Scientific American Mind, Joshua Knobe an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, wrote an article entitled, “Can a Robot, an Insect or God Be Aware?: Our intuitions about consciousness in other beings and objects reveal a lot about how we think. In the article, he looks at the new field of Experimental Philosophy and how it sheds light on how we think.

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