From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 16 Jan 2006 - 12:06:13 GMT
> _are_ generally happier than matched controls and do linger longer
Although the evidence for this is a bit piecemeal, I think there is
enough of it to suggest that religion may be selected at the level of
the individual, and is therefore not in the long run, a "mind virus"
(although periodic explosions of horizontal transmission do occur).
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