06.29.07
An incompletely evolved human
New atheists, ancient argument
An incompletely evolved human is quite visible in the propensity to metaphysical views, on either side of the issues of divinity, soul, free will.
Hitchens blames the persistence of religion on what he regards as the fact that human beings belong to an incompletely evolved species. But both Hitchens and Dawkins find plenty of other villains to blame as well. They condemn everyone from religious moderates, who lend a cloak of respectability to religious fundamentalists, to left-wing “post-modernists,” who undercut the “modernist” assumptions essential to the religious views of the new atheists.