Is evolution to blame for all all the wars in the world?

Question

I mean it obviously attacks on the central tenets of Christianity and the superficial qualities of civility. If you take a simpler route, God made Adam from dust within a blink of an eye. Adam lived to be 9,000 years and gave birth to Eve, defying the physical laws of the world and the authors of Genesis could not get enough laughters from the peanut gallery as their bestseller was gaining credibilty.

In retrospect, if there was no religion, no belief in a towering Supreme Being up in the skies with a white beard dictating morality by faxing it on Earth, there would no such violence or personal turmoil instigated by religion. Religion has from time to time, only served the interests of men who project their microcosm of egotism in a masculine deity

Which leads to the question, with modern media today would Christianity be able to get away as the one true religion like Ron Hubbard's Scientology?

I have a feeling that people answering my question have a reading comprehension of a Mike Tyson or an Ann Coulter

I don't think anyone knows what satire means

Answer 1

No if there were no God as many people would suggest... and that the world evolves and men are ruled by the concept of the strong survive and the weak perish...

I would say that the evolution of the species is responsible for the World Wars

or

if you believe their is a God that is omnipotent and has everything under his control... then it could be him


i am a christian so i'll go with God being responsible

what about you?

Answer 2

Wars are caused by hatred, greed and jealousy. These are human emotions which are a result of evolution of the human brain. No other animal has emotions, and no other animals make war on others of their own species. Therefore, you could say that wars are a result of evolution. We should hope that the human race will evolve further so that these emotions are eliminated from the brain.

Wars are not caused by religion, but religion is used as an excuse for some wars, because people of one religion hate people who believe something else. If there was no religion there would certainly still be war. Christianity and most other religions teach us that war is evil, and so are hatred, greed and jealousy. People who make war are usually ignoring the teaching of their religion.

Answer 3

Not being too critical, but I think U mispelled the second word of Ur post? What I think U should mean is "R"evolution as Satan & Mankind try to do with God as their target which is perhaps what U are sighting in on??? No??? This World has been turned over to Satan for a time so once again, if U got a gripe, take it up with Ur Boss, Satan is it??? U know of course he gets REALLY MAD when he doesn't get credit where credit is due, like WARS, Pestilance & Famine, so why don't U give him some Kudos & score some points with him??? John

Answer 4

No. There are many other reasons why people fight, such as over oil or land. However it is true that people bring up religion as fuel for fighting.
BTW,
I think Christianity IS still getting away with the religion thing. And so is Judaism and Islam.

Answer 5

My thoughts about the causes of war have given me the idea that wars are the products of greed, males seeking power through conquer. Males using their acclaimed power to start more wars, which if won will give the victor privelege to mandate his political, theological and economical policies on the vanquished. But most of all, it's about being the alpha male.

Answer 6

Evolution obviously isnt to blame for all of the wars in the world. I dont think any wars were caused by evolution infact. This is the worst question i have ever seen.

Answer 7

Yes, but not in the way that you mean.

In fact, most wars can be linked directly to conflicts over religious beliefs, including what's going on in Iraq (Sunni vs. Shi'ite), Northern Ireland (Protestant vs. Catholic), Darfur (Muslim vs. Christian and animist), Indonesia (Muslims vs. Christians), Chechnya (Muslim vs. Eastern Orthodox), Bosnia(Muslims vs. Christians), and Israel (Muslims vs. Jews). In the past we have the US Indian wars (Christians vs. Godless heathens), the hunting of Australian Aborigines (Christians vs. Godless heathens), the Crusades (Christians vs. Muslims), and the Third Reich (Christians vs. Jews and Rom and others unrelated to religion).

Evolution favors members of a species that seek out and colonize new space. If species did not do that, and remained in a niche, they would be in great danger of habitat change. You have a butterfly that lives in one kind of sedge in one group of hills in New Mexico, and it is fine until something that does move comes along and starts competing for the sedge, or there is a storm or drought that reduces the available sedge. Species that move and adapt are more likely to survive. Individuals in a species that are more likely to move and adapt are more likely to pass along their genes and so come to define the species.

This is true whether that species is an amoeba or a human.

If humans all stayed in one place and reproduced only enough to replace those who died, there would be no war. No one would want the neighbors' land. No one would want the neighbors' wealth. And we would all be living in Africa, because that is where humans came from. Europe, Asia, and the Americas would be untouched wildernesses.

The mistake is in thinking that war is unnatural. War happens all the time in all species. Chimpanzees war on neighboring tribes of chimpanzees. Meerkats war on neighboring gangs of meerkats. Trees lay down poison so other trees cannot grow in the soil. Malaria spirochets lay waste to humans.

What is unnatural is sitting down and discussing things and trying to avoid war. There is no animal equivalent of the UN. There is no animal equivalent of the Camp David Accords. Plants and animals that have evolved symbiosis have done so without intention.

As Captain Kirk said, in A Taste of Armageddon, "All right. It's instinctive. The instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers,
but we won't kill today. That's all it takes--knowing that we won't kill today."

Answer 8

Well, evolution created us and we have started all of the wars. So, in an indirect way yes. But, we have used religion as the main reason for starting wars.

Answer 9

Although religion stimulates morality to some extent, it also stimulated hatred. Look at the Crusades, for example.

Answer 10

religion is the root cause of most wars