Adaptation Quote by E. O. Wilson

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

— E. O. Wilson

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

— Sigmund Freud

“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that…

— Edward O. Wilson

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

— Don Cupitt

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its…

— Penn Jillette

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

— Oscar Wilde

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

— Daniel Kahneman

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really…

— Edward O. Wilson

It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

— John Shelby Spong

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from…

— Robert Wright