The Nature of Agnosticism Part 4.1
As I’ve begin converging on the idea that religious belief is independent of evidential reasoning, I begin to ask “What factors contribute to, mediate, moderate, and impact the presence and level of religiosity?”. Observing the statistical variability in religiosity seems to imply that there are predictors correlated with what you believe and the strength of conviction. I now ask myself: “What are they?”. In addition, are there game theoretic explanations for the presence of belief? Are there sociological and economic aspects to belief? Is it biopsychosocial? How about evolutionary aspects and neurophysiology? This is obviously an incredibly complex phenomenon so there won’t be one explanation but various candidates that collectively seem very plausible. The main point is that there seems to be a predisposition to form religious beliefs independent of the mechanisms within any particular religion that strengthen adherence. I first want to outline what I've been reading in regards