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Anthropologist Barbara J. King explains what our distant cousins can tell us about religion and why it's OK for scientists to believe in God.
  • here we go again

    Salon keeps running articles about the Big Questions. The main result is that some impressive replies come in. Salon apparently has some really cool, intelligent subscribers.

    As for Barbara King, her comments about apes are truly fascinating. As many others have pointed out, she seems to confuse the differences between "spiritual" (e.g., wonderment at the universes) vs. "religious" (e.g., subscribing to some particular set of beliefs).