{"id":777,"date":"2008-05-28T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/05\/ironic-irony.html"},"modified":"2008-05-28T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T15:11:00","slug":"ironic-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/05\/ironic-irony.html","title":{"rendered":"Ironic Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Dow, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oakland University, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn13983-religion-is-a-product-of-evolution-software-suggests.html\">studying how religion evolved in humans<\/a>.  He&#8217;s written a computer program that shows that religion flourishes in societies, but only where non-believers are attracted to believers.  The reason for this attraction is not understood, but appears to be required.  Without it, believers and their religion quickly go extinct.<\/p>\n<p>So we can conclude that my attraction to my Beauty is a mystery, but the fact that it exists is actually furthering the cause and success of religion in society.  And you thought I wasn&#8217;t making a contribution&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Dow, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oakland University, is studying how religion evolved in humans. He&#8217;s written a computer program<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/05\/ironic-irony.html\" title=\"Read Ironic Irony\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}