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It's saying that the bias against religion in the sciencey tribe presents a barrier to actually studying religions as sources of psychological knowledge that ar
by adrusi 8y ago
It's saying that the bias against religion in the sciencey tribe presents a barrier to actually studying religions as sources of psychological knowledge that are better than random speculation (presumably on the grounds that there was some competition between religions, so that religions that were based on bad ideas about psychology died out and the ones that remain are based on better-than-random ideas about psychology)
Sciencey people think religions are wrong, so they are prone to acting like all ideas to come out of religion are bunk. They shouldn't, so the hostility of sciencey people toward religion hurts science.
- fdsak 8y agowell said !
- dTal 8y agoA most excellent summary. It's funny how hardly anyone in this comment thread seems to have taken away this message. I do however see a whole lot of rather defensive comments about how religion is useless and bad for this reason or that reason, or attacking the article (which I thought was very reasonably written) for religious apology. I think that offers a visible example of the phenomenon under discussion - any suggestion of positive things flowing from religion is met with a kind of allergic reaction.
- AstralStorm 8y agoThe religion as a concept has a use or a few. The allergy cuts both ways, with religious people not wanting their sociotechnological or psychological practices broken down and appropriated without core memes. To do so is considered heresy or worse. More so if done with required irreverence of science where anything can be shown wrong.