What happens when we treat religion as a "natural phenomenon," a biological byproduct of our evolutionary drive to find agency in the rustling of leaves? He invites us to look under the hood of the human mind to see the "clutters of memes" that form our beliefs. "There is no such thing as a miracle, just a magic trick we haven't figured out yet," is the underlying theme of his cognitive surgery. He views the brain as a massive collection of "competence without comprehension," where consciousness arises from the bottom up. His work turns the study of the divine into a branch of evolutionary psychology. He is the philosopher who dares to ask if our souls are just very sophisticated software.
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