If religion is false then what does that say about evolution.?
March 18th, 2010So if spirituality is such a gimmick as atheists claim then you are attacking evolutionary enhancement as well. Evolution is the survival of the fittest so evolution has come up with religion for mankind as a favorable trait. So why attack it if we evolved to have spiritual hunger as a benefit?
Are not the those who believe in a deity doing what they are evolved to do?
This strengthens me that it was that God created humans because he made us and only us with the capacity of spirituality. Primates have no spirituality or other qualities that humans possess. Because we were made in the image of God.
Primates have no spirituality? Have they told you? Do you even know any primates??? There is no way you can say that primates or any other animals possess no spirituality.
No other qualities that humans possess??? Chimpanzees share 98.4% the same DNA as humans. If you care to check out the link I have provided you will find a whole lot more that we share.
As for your fallacious main argument, I am not discounting the fact that evolution may have given humans spirituality. It worked to explain many things when our brain capacities were much smaller and did not have the ability to critically analyze things. Evolution also gave us curiosity and the desire to understand things. Which is why religion worked so well historically. A neat answer when there was no viable alternative. Now, our brain capacities are much larger and we understand a whole lot more about our earth, our solar system and the whole galaxy. Of course there are still areas where we understand very little. But just because science only understands little of a certain subject, does not mean we should discount it and replace it with a book which understands nothing of it. In order to prove my point I will ask you to do something which you are probably not expecting. Read the bible. It contains SO many passages which are now provably false. In many verses it clearly states that it is god's word and it should be taken literally. Taken literally, this book would cause us problems of biblical proprtions.
However, with that said, religious beliefs aren't entirely a positive thing for all people. They've been used to justify plenty of violence, for starters. Furthermore, they seem to be used way too often as an excuse for faulty reasoning. (There are some religious people who do not have even a basic grasp of scientific concepts. It's almost painful listening to them try and debunk some of these ideas, since you can tell right from the get-go they don't even understand what they are debunking.)
Therein lies the irony - even if evolution does give religious belief a pat on the back in a matter of speaking, many religious people don't believe in evolution to accept that pat on the back.
You confuse religion and science. You seek to impose a narrow religious viewpoint on the rest of the world.
That is the true meaning of intolerance and Christianity is the only religion where such intolerance is practiced!!!
Science has proved man was on this planet 70,000 years ago and worshipping a snake. Where was Christianity then?
Stop being intolerant of science and other peoples views and beliefs. It just makes all the non Christians convinced that you are truly afraid of evolution and science because you lack faith and the ability to handle it!
We are born with spirituality in the sense that our social brains tend to anthropomorphise and are full of wonder about the world and a desire to connect. These traits are beneficial on their own (understanding others, drive to understand our environment, connecting to our social group). We are not born with religion.
As such is it possible to argue that religion is a parasitic idea that evolves itself across the generations - the survival of the fittest ideas (meaning survival of the ideas best able to survive by pushing our buttons). But it could also be argued that religion provided a survival advantage to the social group.
I don't know, and I don't know if religion is a positive or negative thing for us on balance. But just because something is a product of evolution, doesn't necessarily make it beneficial.
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