What evolutionary advantage could religion provide?
2006-12-09 15:38:59 · 20 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lol. It answered questions for peoplel that didn't understand the basic function and elements of existance.
2006-12-09 15:49:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Relition isn't part of the evolutionary process, anymore than is writing fiction. Evolution is biological, and religion only affects that in the sense that religion may affect who one chooses to mate with. As there are different religions with different positions, I don't see this as much more than a geographic issue. If the world came to a single religion that had mores dictating who may mate with whom, it might be an issue.
BTW, I'm a singer in NH too.
2006-12-09 15:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i imagine that marriage is a area of ladies human beings being incapacitated at the same time as pregnant and needing someone to grant for the toddlers at the same time as she has a tendency to them. i imagine it extremely is area of our genetic makeup like it truly is with lions, and so on. i imagine even in prehistoric cases there have been probable customs and adverse habit if a lady felt yet another became attempting to take her male. I really have heard each and every thing from a 2 hour ceremony production of a wedding ceremony to the easy "say it 3 cases and it truly is done". I really have seen ceremonies that are only the couple and that i have look weddings that look like anybody on earth is attending. i imagine in all that aspect, the only situation that stikes human beings on the instant is the eliminating of the note obey from the classic wedding ceremony vows. human beings like it or hate it, it kind of feels. Peace!
2016-11-25 01:53:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's exactly where you run into problems. What would religion do? Evolution doesn't really provide a good explanation, whereas creation science provides an excellent reason - God made man to be spiritual, to commune with Him. We are designed for this purpose, to have a relationship with our Creator.
2006-12-09 15:42:22 · answer #4 · answered by Soga 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
long after marriage, since the marriage aspect wouldn't require much communication and would have happened at the beginning stages of linguistic development, religion would have come along once an actual language had been established--otherwise it would have been impossible for two people to believe the same thing, so whatever existed beforehand would have been personal spirituality
2006-12-09 15:49:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early tribal stories that helped people to feel like they understood a world they had no understanding of. These people couldn't even understand stars and clouds... naturally coming up with "explanations" is normal, all cultures have done it. That eventually evolved into religion.
2006-12-09 15:43:29 · answer #6 · answered by Indigo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
about 5 minutes after man asked himself "why am I here?", religion was created.
The evolutionary process of religion was simple, it probably went something like this:
leader of clan 1): "We need something to draw our people together, something that will create a set of rules that everyone can live by and adhere to"
leader of clan 2): "I know! We will say that after you die, you go to some magical place and that the life you live here will determine your fate after your life here is over! That way people will all behave in order to have a better future after their life is over!"
leader of clan 1): "brilliant"
leader of clan 2): "glad we sorted that one out, lets go have a pint"
leader of clan 1): "brilliant!"
...HAHAHA, I just read a lot of the other answers, hahaha. These morons have turned this into an evolution/creationism debate when you are not talking at all about evolution in that sense....Geez guys, enough with your own personal agendas.
He is asking about the evolution of religion, not people brainiacs. He is talking about how religion came into being and how it changed over time, because guess what? RELIGION WAS AROUND LONG BEFORE ANY OF THE MAJOR RELIGIONS WE HAVE NOW!
2006-12-09 15:40:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Wait a minute. Reverse those words. They are so easy to mix up. 2) A contested time line to shake out the chaff?
2006-12-09 15:43:15 · answer #8 · answered by TCFKAYM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When there were different tribes who worshiped differently and it became important the the Ego of the Chief or Shaman.
2006-12-09 15:46:07 · answer #9 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When our mind started to explain the world around us. Look the moon glows it must be a God. Once we started understaing the world better we came up with an all powerful god.
2006-12-09 15:46:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋