Beliefs are memes and memes only exist in the neural networks of brains . When people talk about their beliefs, they often do it as if their beliefs are facts that anyone can see. Facts are things that can be sensory perceived by anyone. ● The Statue of Liberty and the Rocky Mountains exist. That’s a fact. They can be sensory perceived ( seen, felt, smelled, tasted ) by a group of people with very different belief systems. ● The Trinity and Original Sin are beliefs. They cannot be sensory perceived ( seen, felt, smelled, tasted ). They are not real for people with different belief systems. In order to view beliefs in the evolutionary contexts required to evaluate them , we must anchor them to the world outside the brain . We do this by anchoring them to times, places and people . This is very useful and scientists do with facts all of the time. Below is an example using the Statue of Liberty. ● mid.1865 – In an after dinner conversation, Édouard René de Labou...