(Crossposted from Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.) This important article by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg (the full version of which has recently been published in Science, 18 May 2007) examines the psychological wellsprings of resistance to scientific explanations of the world's phenomena. More particularly, it discusses the ...

further reading on roots of morality... Hardwired Behavior : Neuroscience Reveals Morality Primates & Philosophers : How Morality Evolved Good Natured-Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans & Animals Moral Minds