2007-02-22 01:01:49 · 11 answers · asked by good_4chen 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Deidre, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that you're wrong. Maybe common beliefs unified early people and that helped them. I know this a way simplified, but I don't know.
2007-02-22 01:27:47 · update #1
no, I think it is an unfortunate byproduct of our evolutionary trajectory.
2007-02-22 01:05:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a side effect of some belief formation systems that have evolutionary advantage. The "gullibility" one mentioned above comes the closest so far, but I think it's a lot more like the way animals run when they hear a sound or see a movement, operating on the assumption - typically false - that the sound or movement signals the presence of a predator. In those cases, it's far less important (to evolution) to have a true belief than it is to get away: the cost of a false positive is FAR less than the cost of a false negative.
2007-02-22 01:13:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but not evolutionary in the earthly sense. I believe in the evolution of the soul over time, and belief in the supernatural is merely a memory of our past and a looking forward to our future.
If you count what is called parapsychology in the supernatural, then these may have some natural evolutional properties as well. The ability to know that danger approaches, either you or a loved one, or someone else, could have some natural advantages. Those with that ability are naturally better able to survive, and to help their tribe survive.
2007-02-22 01:08:30 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
you have a factor, nonetheless i think of that is basically "evolutionary" in a much broader, non-organic and organic experience. fact fee could be irrelevant to the income of perception. Douglas Adams gave a speech as quickly as, via fact that recorded as an essay, with regard to the opportunity of "a guy made god" -- a handy social fiction that supplies some income, yet basically while there's a typical contract to artwork in that framework. yet there is not any such typical contract anymore, and as quickly as that has cracked, it has to give way.
2016-11-24 23:40:16 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. People believe in a higher intelligence because of experience. From the beginning of recorded history, and even before, on the walls of caves, mankind has believed in an afterlife. Every day millions of people have spiritual experiences: out-of-body, near death, visions, lucid dreams and others. It is because of these experiences people came to believe in a spiritual world after physical life. In recent research on near death experiences the studies show consciousness continues to live after the death of the brain and body. This issue has nothing to do with evolution.
2007-02-22 01:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by Lekatt 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dawkins seams o think it is the misfiring of an old trait comparable to a moth flying into a flame. Not always as deadly.
2007-02-22 01:06:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do. It's decently supported by the quantum physic study of entanglement. You may want to give that a google if Your interested in this sort of thing.
2007-02-22 01:30:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a by product of having such a big brain. People needed comfort when they came to know that death is inevitable.
2007-02-22 01:10:55 · answer #8 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly gullibility is. Children who are skeptical and don't believe what their parents tell them tend to get eaten by the pretty crocodiles their parents told them not to play with.
2007-02-22 01:08:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My husband does. He believes we are all born with a need to find God. Personally, I don't think there is a tie-in, No.
2007-02-22 01:16:48 · answer #10 · answered by Dovey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋