ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a sketch of how insights from evolutionary psychology and cognitive science of religion may contribute to our metaphysical and religious understanding of ourselves and our world. It discusses first, that the structure and function of the mind must be consistent with a biologically evolved mind, and, second, that a significant proportion of the mind is modular in structure. The chapter explores the possibility that person talk is appropriate in ways that may or may not track the truth. It is appropriate to use person talk' when such use furthers the aim for which the language is intended. Swinburne is a dualist. He believes at the level of ultimate ontology two types of stuff exist. There exist both physical objects and person's at the most basic level of this universe. He is a realist about the existence of persons and physical objects.
