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Human in social always becomes an interesting object of study. It is an endless process to study human related to religion, culture, and science. The Evolution of God is a book that tracks the transformation of faith from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Wright uses evolutionary psychology approach to examine the human’s morality. He emphasizes his study on the development of religions from primitive hunter-gatherer stages to monotheism.

This book discovers that in this evolution of religion, even the great monotheistic religions contain a code for the salvation of the world. He uses sociology and anthropological approach to examine the ways that morality of individual might be hard-wired by nature rather than influenced by culture. He also uses game theory to examine the relationship of all religions. His study can be a reference to solve the conflict of three world’s biggest religions: Abrahamic, Christian, and Islam.

He suggests that individual in those three faiths should embrace a non-zero-sum relationship to other religion. They need to act with tolerance toward other religions and seeing their fortunes as positively correlated and interdependent. Unfortunately, there is only little unveiled which is genuinely new or insightful about religion. After all, this is all about opening the religious world views more.