Many religionists say that evolution can't explain love, that we need a god as the source for love.
Evolution actually explains love very simply. In primitive, hunter/gatherer societies it is strongly advantageous to have a couple stay together to raise their children. It's advantageous even in modern societies, altho not as critically. Without love a couple is less likely to stay together. Without love they would be far less likely to keep raising their children when things are difficult. With love, children are more likely to be loving themselves — to others and eventually to their own children. Love also helps bind extended families and friends. Any humans who didn't love were less likely to have descendents. Any humans who did love were more likely to have descendents. Evolution has programmed us for love.
2006-08-18 13:32:47 · 18 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Love comes from kindness, which comes from care, which comes from empathy, which comes from sympathy, which comes from pity, which comes from superiority. pretty much the source of all emotions, unless your're looking up to someone more superior, in which case would come from inferiority.
2006-08-18 13:48:48 · answer #1 · answered by =_= 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well God is evolution. Everything comes from the Source of Creation which we are all a part of. Love is simply the witness of caring about civility amongst humans that seems to help us survive, getting what we need to fend off offensiveness and stress that eventually kills us as it becomes unresolved as it piles up.
2006-08-18 20:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love + Evolution = Chemical Process
Love + God = Greatest Love of all
2006-08-18 20:38:23 · answer #3 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Love is a function of the brain which is used to make us (humans and animals alike) to reproduce and rear children.
I believe you've said everything that is to say in your question... you're barely scratching the surface, but it sums it up quite nicely :)
God is not behind love! He IS NOT love! Because he doesn't exist.
2006-08-18 20:41:39 · answer #4 · answered by Kirtap 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Society.
2006-08-18 20:41:12 · answer #5 · answered by shadowsonic2004 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not sure where it came from, I am too busy trying to find out where it went.
Is it really love that keeps couples together? Or wealth, or sometimes nothing can.
We are programmed for love but the world seems to deplete it each and every day.
2006-08-18 20:38:03 · answer #6 · answered by MrPurrfect 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your description of "love" describes procreation and survival, both of which are not necessary ingredients of love. Love, I think comes from the heart when you think that one of the aspects of that emotion is one's willingness to die for another.
2006-08-18 21:55:12 · answer #7 · answered by Tony T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a responsibility not an emotion
2006-08-18 22:30:27 · answer #8 · answered by Tinkerbelle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love comes from our feelings of lust and lust comes from our very nature to wanting to survive. What im trying to say is that we love because we need to have sex because we desire to past our genes. So that our species can survive.
2006-08-18 20:43:27 · answer #9 · answered by Marcus C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love comes from two souls sharing common feelings.
2006-08-18 20:40:29 · answer #10 · answered by LH 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋