Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Religion
In reply to the discussion: Have We Evolved to Be Religious? [View all]Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)42. Natural selection is part of the mechanism of evolution.
"evolved or bred" makes no sense. The process you describe is exactly the process the author argues has evolved our predisposition for religious beliefs.
Humans are murderous cooperative apes. Religion is part of the glue that binds us into groups.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
61 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
The alternative would be admitting Satan^H^H^H^H^HDawkins has a point.
2ndAmForComputers
Mar 2012
#14
Good stuff. Echoes beyond the organized religion mind-set to a bigger picture, yet negates neither.
pinto
Mar 2012
#16
Correction: Evolution only eliminates them if they are a detriment to survival.
trotsky
Apr 2012
#55
More to the point, so what? It may have served a purpose at one point.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2012
#41
Natural selection and breeding from an intelligent source are not two different things.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2012
#44
If you read on it is clear that artificial selection is a subset of natural selection.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2012
#46
Natural Selection has also selected traits in humans that allow us to reason
EvolveOrConvolve
Mar 2012
#39
Where ever it came from being religious, believing in the sacred, does seem to have value.
MissMarple
Apr 2012
#60