Rational Study of Religion

theevolutioninstitute.org/foci/evolutionary-religious-studies/

"It is important to stress that most religious scholars, regardless of their intellectual perspective, study religion as a human-created phenomenon. Religious scholars (as opposed to theologians) have no more use for supernatural explanations than do biologists. What’s new about the evolutionary perspective is that it provides a conceptual framework for organizing existing knowledge about religion and directing future inquiry. In short, evolutionary theory can do for the subject of religion what it has already done for the biological sciences. This kind of basic scientific understanding is essential for addressing the myriad public policy issues, positive and negative, posed by religion."