{"id":65880,"date":"2023-04-03T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-04-03\/recurrir-a-dioses-y-brujas-para-explicar-los-fenomenos-naturales-es-universal.html"},"modified":"2023-04-03T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:01:10","slug":"recurrir-a-dioses-y-brujas-para-explicar-los-fenomenos-naturales-es-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/recurrir-a-dioses-y-brujas-para-explicar-los-fenomenos-naturales-es-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning to gods and witches to explain natural phenomena is universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, several groups of fundamentalist Christians in the United States and South Korea saw the Apocalypse coming. For some evangelicals, SARS-CoV-2 is not a simple virus from the family of <i>Coronaviridae<\/i> related to previous pathogens causing severe acute respiratory syndrome. It was a punishment from God, even a warning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/02\/us\/coronavirus-apocalypse-religion.html\" >the second arrival of Jesus<\/a>. Although science has been narrowing the space for this type of beliefs, they are still there: an ethnographic study of a hundred societies on the planet confirms that, when there is no clear or easy explanation for a phenomenon, humans tend to look for a supernatural explanation. .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-04-03\/recurrir-a-dioses-y-brujas-para-explicar-los-fenomenos-naturales-es-universal.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The analysis of a hundred societies confirms that humans tend to give a supernatural origin to diseases, disasters and even wars<\/p>","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65881,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65880\/revisions\/65881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}