{"id":3231,"date":"2009-11-07T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2009-11-07T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T23:50:39","slug":"nicholas-wades-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/nicholas-wades-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Wade&#8217;s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Wade&#8217;s new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faith-Instinct-Religion-Evolved-Endures\/dp\/1594202281\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1257631245&amp;sr=1-1\">The Faith Instinct<\/a><\/em> comes out next week. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been reading it for review, and it&#8217;s excellent. \u00a0He seems (I&#8217;m only 60 pages in) to plant himself firmly in the religion-is-adaptive camp. This puts him in a minority among people who write about the natural history of religion. \u00a0Most take religion to be an accidental by-product of cognitive processes &#8212; hair-trigger &#8220;agency detection&#8221; modules etc. \u00a0Nice to see the other point of view (and group selection, too) get an airing.<\/p>\n<p>My review of Nick&#8217;s previous book <em>Before the Dawn<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Reviews\/HumanSciences\/beforethedawn.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Wade&#8217;s new book The Faith Instinct comes out next week. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been reading it for review, and it&#8217;s excellent. \u00a0He seems (I&#8217;m only 60 pages in) to plant himself firmly in the religion-is-adaptive camp. This puts him in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/nicholas-wades-new-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}