Evolution causes religion?

Question

If the human race has evolved from lower life forms, and religion is a result of evolution (since it had to have been after man reasoned that he needed religion), logically the evolution of humans would mean that one day all humans would eventually become religious. Because as time goes forward, man does not de-evolve. So Religion is a result of evolution and should be embraced as a product of the human races ever increasing capacity for those things which make it better.

Mwahhhh!

I hear a lot of spin and evolutionary double speak. New theories are being wipped out so fast my head is spinning.

Answer 1

Many diseases are the result of evolution, does that mean we should "embrace" them? No

Answer 2

RELIGION VERSES EVOLUTION OR HUMAN EVOLUTION....SOUNDS MORE LIKE A THEOREDICAL TOPIC DISCUSSION THAN A QUESTION. So many individuals have written books on this very subject. I will keep it short... Religion differs from that of spirit, so based on this theory, new trancendant spiritual adaptations can become evident in peoples lives today. There are several ways to reach enlightenment and peaceful communion with the source. To evolve is even to take backward steps to simplicity and environmental communion. Wow their could be so many views on what is an example of evolving and what isn't. Part of me thinks that to walk into faith and simplicity IS to evolve and another may think that they need this and that to evolve. I think to evolve is to evolve in conscousness on love and back to the laws of the Universe "Attraction"...what you believe you attract.

Answer 3

EMBRACING SOMETHING WITH YOUR OWN WILL AND EVOLVING INTO SOMETHING ARE COMPLETELY OPPOSITE THINGS. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO GET DOWN TO THE NITTY HERE, RELIGION IS A RESULT OF EGO. IT IS A BY PRODUCT NOT NECSSARILY USEFUL, LIKE THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT REFLEX, LEFT OVER FROM OUR TRIP DOWN EVOLUTION LANE. THE IDEA ITSELF OF FIGHT OR FLIGHT IS ABSOLUTELY APPROPRIATE FOR TODAY, BUT THE CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL REACTION WE EXPERIENCE, MOST OF THE TIME AGAINST YOUR WILL, IS VERY INAPPROPRIATE AND IS AN OBVIOUS BY-PRODUCT FROM A TIME WHEN WE WEREN'T QUITE ABLE TO THINK OUT THE IDEA, OUR BODIES AUTOMATICALLY REACTED FOR US, KEEPING US ALIVE. THE POINT BEING, BACK DURING A TIME WHEN MORE HORMONAL AND LESS INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES REIGNED OVER OUR SPECIES, OUR EGOS COOKED UP DIETY WORSHIP. IT FIRST APPEARED 20,000+ THOUSAND YEARS AGO, WITH THE MOTHER GODDESS AND IT LITERALY WENT FROM NO RELIGION, NO ART, TO AN ABSOLUTE EXPLOSION OF IT FROM BOTH CRO-MAG AND NEANDERTHAL. WE HAVE NOW (SOME OF US) ATTAINED A NEW LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING AND ENLIGHTENMENT AND THAT IS WHY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO QUESTION THE SUPREME BEING/ CREATION/ SALVATION/ AFTERLIFE THEORIES, HAVE GREATLY INCREASED AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO.

Answer 4

This thing called "de-evolution", she does not exist.

For example: viruses. They likely evolved from more complex life-forms, but in their case being more simple (to the point where their status as life is debated) was more advantegous for some reason.

Complexity is not a yardstick for 'more evolved'. 'More evolved' isn't even a real concept in the theory as it exists today; just better adapted.

Answer 5

ACTUALLY...humans invented "religion," or more specifically the beliefs that was the precursor to religion, and stories as a way of understanding a world they could not understand.

With further advancement of the human species and we grow in sense of logic and understanding, the need for such beliefs diminishes. Hence the growing population of non-believers today verses long ago.

Answer 6

In a sense, evolution causes religion. But it's a pretty insignificant sense. Religion was primitive man's way of understanding why we're on earth, and how we got here. Pagan cultures arose because of this. If you saw lightning and heard thunder, it was Thor throwing lightning bolts and racing his chariot in the clouds. It was Odin who created the Runes language by hanging on a tree for 9 days. Eventually, the Israelites tried their hardest to give up polytheism (although they often would fall back into polytheism at various times throughout the Hebrew Bible, but they seemed to be strictly monotheistic by the New Testament). They gave up polytheism in favor for just one god (El, a Canaanite deity), who they interpreted as being all-powerful, and they came to believe that El replaced the many gods and goddesses previously worshipped. El only reached true power once he was given the name Yahweh, which made him needing of worship to the exclusion of all other gods. Religion is a cause of evolution, and this is a testament to the various religions across the globe. They all arise due to various problems or misunderstandings in their cultures. Polytheistic religions arose due to a lack of understanding of science. Like I mentioned, the early peoples didn't understand that it was natural phenomenon that caused lighting, so they created various gods and goddesses as a way of explaining natural effects. Monotheism arose because a group of people came to believe that only one god existed (or at least only one god should be worshipped), and performed all of the duties of the various deities previously worshipped. Eventually, Judaism arose out of this monotheism (which was a result of Pharaoh Aknetahn's belief that Amen-Ra (an Egyptian god) should be worshipped in exclusion to all other gods). About few millenia later, Christianity arose because Jesus and his followers had a problem with the ruling Pharisees. Islam arose because Muhammed had a problem with the war-like culture of Pagan Arabia. Muhammed eventually came to realize that Allah (Arabic, al-Lah, "the god". Allah was the local god of Muhammed's tribe of the Qury'ash) was one and the same as the Judeo-Christian god, although Muhammed was a strict monotheist, vehemently rejecting the Trinity. So in closing, yes, religion(s) is/are a result of evolution. That doesn't mean we should embrace them over our tailbone, which is a result of our human evolution.

Answer 7

nice try but you need to refresher in natural selection. Natural selection does not concern itself with good or bad and it is concerned with traits and antributes that are beneficial or disadvantagious within a given environment.
Man's development of religion does not fall within a trait or attribute catagory.
Incidentally, natural selection does deselect, it is called negative selection, that is the accumulation of traits disadvantagious to the species but not immediately detrimental.
It is been postulated that the human species has entered a state of irreversable negative selection around 1990.

Answer 8

Actually religion flourished because of the agricultural revolution.
Once people could stock pile enough food to feed an army... conquering they went. The lives of most (serfs, peasants, etc..) were so miserable they needed something better to look forward to....a Utopian paradise called heaven! Sold to the ignorant slaves!

Answer 9

lm a human, l am a christian , l am in the process of evolution, my life is in the process of evolution, I am locked with in the process of lifes evolution. l am both a christian and l am evolving, Praise God for this great experience, starting at the begining of humanity with the eating of the apple ,"Ha Raa" God is Good, Life is Good

Answer 10

So racism is also an inevitable result of evolution too then?

We'll embrace that too? OK...

Now, where did I put that hood? (joke only)


The gaping holes in their logic is staggering.