Letters to the Editor
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Re: you simply prove my (and Collins') point
gene: "You can speculate all you want about it being an evolutionary adaptation, but where is the proof of this adaptation?... I, Francis Collins and millions of others would say that believing Christianity is also a justified true belief based on numerous things, including the historical reliability of Scripture"
Here's where Christian apologists get all confused about science. Science is not a set of proofs, it's a degree of certainty achieved by challenging a premise.
Just because a scientific theory and an alternative religious belief are both not proved, does not give them equal merit.
One can examine social traits of a population of wild dogs, for example, and observe that in some circumstances a population that maintains some kind of social pact fares better than one where it's every individual for him or herself. The religious argument that god "made morality", is, on it's face, about as believable as a man walking on water.
Jason