The psychologist Paul Bloom, another advocate of the'religion is a by-product' view, points out that children have anatural tendency towards a dualistic theory of mind. Religion, forhim, is a by-product of such instinctive dualism. We humans, hesuggests, and especially children, are natural born dualists.

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