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Evolutionary Thinking is Hard Work

Why it's hard to get over God, even for the godless evolutionist.
Published on July 1, 2008 by Jesse Bering, Ph.D. in Quirky Little Things

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Jesse Bering

Jesse Bering is an experimental psychologist and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University, Belfast.

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