Why Atheism Will Replace Religion 2012 explains why religion will decl site_link Why Atheism Will Replace Religion sees organized religion as a dodo Religion evolved to help our ancestors cope with anxiety and insecurity Supernatural belief is in decline everywhere that ordinary people enjoy a decent standard of living and are secure in their health and finances The market for formal religion is also being squeezed by modern substitutes such as sports and entertainment Even Facebook is killing religion because it provides answers for peculiarly modern narcissistic anxieties for which religion has no answer This book focuses on the emotional benefits of religion that favored its evolution amongst hunter gatherers It links the cause of religion s emergence with the reason for its terminal decline The writing style is similar to the author s popular blogs on Psychology Today and Huffington Post Why Atheism Will Replace Religion The triumph of earthly pleasures over pie in the skyI believe wholeheartedly in this thesis but this is a terribly written book The whole time I was reading it I just wanted to edit it It was so repetitive that it could have been a quarter of the length and would have been 10 times better. There were also a few parts where the author veered into speculation that seemed dubious.

Nigel Barber is an evolutionary psychologist and writer With an undergraduate degree in English from Trinity College Dublin he studied psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York and received his Ph. in Biopsychology in 1989 He taught psychology for eight years at Bemidji State University in Minnesota and at Birmingham Southern College He now works as a freelance writer and researcher. Dr Barber has held professional memberships in the American Psychological Association the Human Behavior and Evolution Society the Animal Behavior Society and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology His honors include an American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award a Distinguished Student Award a Nigel Barber is an evolutionary psychologist and writer With an undergraduate degree in English from Trinity College Dublin he studied psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York and received his Ph. in Biopsychology in 1989 He taught psychology for eight years at Bemidji State University in Minnesota and at Birmingham Southern College He now works as a freelance writer and researcher. Dr Barber has held professional memberships in the American Psychological Association the Human Behavior and Evolution Society the Animal Behavior Society and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology His honors include an American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award a Distinguished Student Award and a fellowship from the Gruter Institute He is listed in Who s Who in the South and Southwest Who s Who in Medicine and Healthcare Strath s Who s Who and Who s Who in the 21st Century He is frequently interviewed as an expert on topics related to marriage and sexuality by journalists around the globe His research has been featured in numerous newspaper articles e g. Vogue In Touch and television stories including a 2012 Discover article profiling his extensive pioneering research on marriage markets around the globe He is often interviewed on radio here and in England and was invited to appear on Bloomberg television and Morgan Freeman s science program His clear exposition of scientific ideas resulted in blog posts being republished in English as a second language textbooks in Germany and Japan. Beginning as an animal behaviorist Barber has focused his recent research activities in evolutionary psychology His fields of interest include sexual and reproductive behavior and religion as they vary across societies and over time A prolific researcher with over 60 first author peer reviewed publications see Bibliography section for selection he has published in many professional journals including The Quarterly Review of Biology Animal Behaviour Teaching of Psychology The Journal of Social Psychology Sex Roles Evolution and Human Behavior The Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology Cross Cultural Research International Journal of Eating Disorders Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Intelligence Journal of Happiness Studies Evolutionary Psychology Aggressive Behavior Social Biology Journal of Genius and Eminence and Aggression and Violent Behavior among others He is an editorial reviewer for Cross Cultural Research Human Nature and Evolutionary Psychology among other journals He popularizes science in a blog at Psychology Today titled The Human Beast site_link Barber is the author of several well received crossover books that were written to be intelligible to general readers He published Why Parents Matter Parental Investment and Child Outcomes as a trade book with Bergin and Garvey 2000 This book applied an evolutionary interpretation of parental investment to current social problems including teen pregnancy and juvenile crime The Science of Romance Prometheus 2002 which provided an evolutionary account of courtship and reproductive competition won the Independent Publisher s award in psychology Kindness in a Cruel World Prometheus 2004 developed an evolutionary explanation of altruism and antisocial behavior as a function of the different rearing conditions and parental investment prospects in societies around the world The Myth of Culture Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science of Societies Cambridge Scholars 2008 proposes a radical reinterpretation of the social sciences as natural sciences where human behavior variation in different societies is conceived as an adaptive response to varied challenges and developmental histories The e book such as in a lot of the unnecessary anthropological parts Best when he stuck to statistics One good part was looking at different development indexes and country level stats to make many separate predictions as to when the world will become over 50% atheist and seeing that they all jibe well to the years 2030 2040.D.D. Dallas Morning News Los Angeles Times magazines e g.Merry Christmas everyone Nigel Barber