But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity and that being able to join in musical activity along with dancing could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.