| silicon said: The best way to answer the OP is to show that humans evolved the belief in religion... They already know that people have a genetic predisposition to believing in religion. They also are starting to realize how religions evolve and adapt to human circumstances. Humanity needed a reason for people to take care of the poor, sick, old, disadvantaged etc. |
One of the modern intellectual vices is to try to find a connection between evolution and everything. Believe it or not, but no study actually shows any 'predisposition to believe in religion'. They just show parts of the brain active when people think about religion (which doesn't mean that those areas activate as a sort of reflex, forcing the person to have those thoughts, but simply that they're the areas used when a person things such things). Evolution has nothing to do with social and cultural practices, which are taught after a person is born.
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