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            <title><![CDATA[Why Humans Believe: We Didn't Evolve Religion to Explain the World — We Evolved It to Survive It]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Religion evolved not to explain the world, but to make it livable. The feeling of incomprehensibility that underlies religious impulse is decoupled from factual ignorance — to believe is not to misunderstand the world, it is to endure it.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Humans Believe: An Evolutionary Framework for Human Religiosity]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This paper proposes that religiosity persists not merely as cultural habit, but as an evolved psychological mechanism for managing the unbearable cognitive weight of existence. The feeling of incomprehensibility that underlies religious impulse is decoupled from factual ignorance.]]></description>
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