"Perhaps unbelievers do not so much reject the religious needs and impulses of the human race as adapt to them in realistic and humanistic terms, replacing the fairy tales of conventional religion with the more intellectually demanding tales, provided by modern science, of natural laws and of the demonstrable, replicable evidence of cause-and-effect relationships."
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, The Biological Roots of Religion, in Paul Kurtz (ed.), Science and Religion (2003) (p. 308)
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