religion may have helped protect human society from itself in the past and it may be needed again."Maybe religion is needed," said Lord May. "A supernatural punisher maybe part of the solution," he added.
He said that in the past, a belief in a god, or gods, that punish the unrighteous may have been part of the mechanism of evolution that maintains co-operation in a dog-eat-dog world.
Having a God as the ultimate punisher was possibly a logical step for a society to take, he added.
Such a system would be "immensely stabilizing in individual human cultures" and societies, he pointed out.
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