Let he who is without cognitive bias cast the first lecture. [View all]

I read an interesting sermon this morning on the subject of cognitive bias.

The one giving the sermon, or the lecture if any prefers, claims with zero evidence that the impulse to religion arises from the reptile brain. And that baseless claim is itself an interesting display of something, but it hardly qualifies as evidence of anything other than the cognitive bias of the one preaching, or lecturing.


And often I read pieces claiming that non-theism is the more logical position on the theism versus non-theism debate.

Again, another instance of cognitive bias on the part of anyone making the point, but hardly proof of anything other than humans do suffer from cognitive bias in many ways.

The impulse to spirituality, which evolved, so to speak, into more formalized things such as religion, is one that has been with us probably since we evolved enough sentience to think abstractly.


While our brains can use logic, we cannot remove emotion from our thinking.