{"id":4685,"date":"2008-02-19T23:48:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_why_do_we_believe_in_god_researchers_are_to_spend_19_million_t\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T23:48:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:48:01","slug":"london_times_why_do_we_believe_in_god_researchers_are_to_spend_19_million_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4685","title":{"rendered":"London Times: Why do we believe in God? Researchers are to spend \u00c2\u00a31.9 million to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be the ultimate million-dollar question: why do people believe in God? But inflation has swollen the price to \u00c2\u00a31.9 million. This is the sum being handed to Oxford University researchers to explore a topic that has puzzled philosophers and scientists for centuries. The researchers will not be troubling themselves with the matter of whether or not God exists, merely whether belief in God maybe gave Man a Darwinian evolutionary advantage; or whether it is a result of Man&#8217;s sociable nature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/leading_article\/article3393161.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be the ultimate million-dollar question: why do people believe in God? But inflation has swollen the price to \u00c2\u00a31.9 million. This is the sum being handed to Oxford University researchers to explore a topic that has puzzled<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4685\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}