Where did our emotions 'evolve' from? How do we feel sadness,anger,love hate jealousy anticipation remorse happiness rage hurt joy and a host of other emotions.
Could we REALLY have gotten this from a rock/soup millions of years ago?
2007-01-06 11:26:47 · 20 answers · asked by Jeff C 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Obvoiusly a Creator could and did it.
2007-01-06 11:27:21 · update #1
yes, and God created cats as well
2007-01-06 11:29:55 · update #2
amen
2007-01-06 11:31:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
A) Evolution
Our emotions, and those of all creatures evolved via a gradualistic selective process. In our species, an enhanced cognative ability was selectively benificial for those direct ancestors which survived, reproduced and gave rise to us.
B) Creation
God gave us love, anticipation, remorse etc. Then did he also give us hate, rage, joy hurt etc. ? Sounds malicious and capricious to me... oh yah. Like the bible suggests.
Pehaps satan and his little pixies gave us those 'bad' emotions?
how about (a) again to explain the hurtful emotions (and accepting you can see the benifit of the good ones without trying). i.e. it was selectively benificial for some humans to be jealous of others possessions or sexual partners. How about adding that those people were also inspired by anticipanting benifits they could derive from stealing the others property?
Maybe anger/rage allowed them to steal those things, then have lots of material weath and power, more sexual partners, and be able to better care for those partners and children through their hurtfully aquired weath.
Selection can act on all those emotions, indipendantly or together, so that even those inspired by the most hurtful emotions can benifit from them and pass those tendancies (those versions of the genes responsible) to their descendants.
Oh.... cats...
[Yes, cats, have emotions, as do all other mammals, but mostly a less complex range than in humans. Reptiles also have less complex neurological impulses that could be called emotions, but more simple than in mammals because selection has not required their evolution in similar ways.
Example, my boyfriends pet lizard gets bored (=emotion) of eating the same food, and we have to vary its diet. It also seems to be jealous (=emotion) when the companion lizard gets the new food first as it bites the tail of the other....]
:) love to all, especially the emprical athiests.
2007-01-06 21:07:36 · answer #2 · answered by nnjamerson 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps - that does not rule out evolution at all.
You are making the assumption that if there is a God, God could only have created the world with species already produced. God contains the idea of infinity. If indeed there is a God, you can be certain of one thing: As a limited being, you are unable to understand what that God is.
So why do you automatically assume that evolution and Godhood are incompatible, since you can't possibly understand what Godhood is anyway?
2007-01-06 19:31:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have a cat. He shows sadness,anger,love hate jealousy anticipation remorse happiness rage hurt joy and a host of other emotions too.
To tell you the truth,all animals are like this.....
2007-01-06 19:28:59 · answer #4 · answered by Myaloo 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Each emotion has an evolutionary source and use as a survival tool. By the way, wouldn't jealousy be something the devil provided?
2007-01-06 19:37:38 · answer #5 · answered by Sketch 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The turning point in the development of sophisitcated emotions was the "threshold of reflection" ie advanced consciousness which brought about self-awareness. Evolution has been a wonderful, exciting, inspiring white-knuckle ride, and it all happened without a god or gods. Get over it.
2007-01-06 19:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Emotions tie into primitive portions of our brains that are present in reptiles and amphibians. They relate to the pleasure and pain centers in the brainstem. Increased sophistication of the brain allows for more comlexity of the emotional response, but at heart, it is primal.
2007-01-06 19:44:34 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Emotion makes perfect evolutionary sense.
It's Fine, lrn2darwin
2007-01-06 19:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by Drew 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Obvoiusly a Creator could and did it."
Obviously it was the Invisible Pink Unicorn. There could BE no other answer!
What a load of foolishness. Your assumption that there is a god creator is not obvious except to you and those who believe as you do.
2007-01-06 19:33:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
No. Your creator didn't do it. Go learn science, then come back and we'll talk because there's no way in hell I (or anyone else) can teach you everything you need to know by posting in 1500 words or less on some web forum.
Nor am I willing to do your work for you just because you want to be lazy. If you want to learn it, then go learn it properly.
2007-01-06 19:30:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
a) just because I don't know the answer doesn't mean a professional evolutionary psychologist doen't know (argument from ignorance)
b) just beecause no one knows doesn't make it better or more correct to say "it was magic". Science is a continuously evolving subject.
2007-01-06 19:30:35 · answer #11 · answered by Om 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋