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Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, by CEU / Daniel Vegel, via Flickr (cropped).

Reviewing Sapiens — Back to the Guy Who Lost His Faith Over Harari

Podcaster Sam Davis told Justin Brierley that what did it for him was reading Yuval Noah Harari’s idea that “humanity is a weaver of stories.” Read More ›
The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Image: "The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776," by John Trumbull, via GPA Photo Archive/Flickr (cropped).

Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Read More ›
Santal
Photo: Santa people, by Ramjit Tudu, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Reviewing Sapiens: Getting the Origin of Religion Backwards

The traditions of the Santal people entail an account of their own religious history that directly contradicts Harari’s evolutionary view. Read More ›
Parthenon
Photo: Parthenon, by George E. Koronaios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Read More ›
Yuval Noah Harari
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In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Casey Luskin.

New Review Series — Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

Earlier this year an ID-friendly scientist contacted me to ask my opinion of the book. He mentioned a former Christian who had lost his faith after reading it. Read More ›

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