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RECORDED ON MAY 2nd 2024.
Dr. Michael Price is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Brunel University London. His past research has focused mainly on evolutionary moral psychology. More recently, his primary research interests have been the biological and biocultural evolution of religio-spirituality, and “Universal Darwinism”, which investigates the anti-entropic, creative power of Darwinian selection across all natural domains, from physics to biology to culture.

In this episode, we focus on religion from an evolutionary perspective. We talk about meaning-making in science and religion, the adaptive bases of religion and the cultural evolution of science, religio-spirituality as a biocultural phenomenon, the benefits of religion, and whether we can have secular societies with the same sorts of benefits. We also discuss the idea of Universal Darwinism and antientropic processes, and whether we can derive moral values from evolutionary theory.

Time Links:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Religion from an evolutionary perspective
02:58 Meaning-making in science and religion
11:24 The evolution of science and religion
19:45 Religio-spirituality as a biocultural phenomenon
25:08 The benefits of religion
29:30 Can we do without religion?
36:21 Universal Darwinism, and antientropic processes
45:32 Can we derive moral values from evolutionary theory?
51:07 Dr. Price’s current work on religio-spirituality
54:54 Follow Dr. Price’s work!
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