Will we ever evolve beyond superstitious beliefs?

Answer 1

I like to think some of us have, I think it is more a matter of getting a decent education and using critical thinking however than it is a matter of evolution.
God cannot be proved nor can he be disproved, the fact that he cannot be disproved is not something for theists to get over-excited about because we also cannot disprove fairies, the Invisible Pink Unicorn , The Flying Spaghetti Monster nor Bertram Russel's Celestial Teapot but we know they are as unlikely to be real just as is a personal God unlikely to be real.

Answer 2

Not that some of us aren't irrational and superstitiously cling to unquestioned beliefs, I don't think it's fair-minded to imply that all religious beliefs are superstitious. A particular belief system may not be acceptable to you, but a just investigation will reveal that many religious people have come to their conclusions through a long and arduous process of questioning and testing. The results are undoubtedly subjective, will not stand up to laboratory rigor, but we cannot unfairly label and dismiss outright those conclusions to love a particular being/beings as superstitious any more than the conclusions we've all made about others that we've chosen to love.

Answer 3

Not possible. Superstitious beliefs are a cultural phemonenon and evolution is a biological process. The two operate on wildly different time-scales.

The only way to eliminate persistent superstitious beliefs from our culture is through public education and ridicule.

Answer 4

Probably not -- depending upon how serious you are about the 'superstitious' thing. I think if you are superstitious instead of religious, that's ridiculous. However, I think that if you feel superstitious about "wearing a certain pair of underwear to win the game", it is just silly superstition and pretty innocuous. I think if you do that kid thing like "step on a crack, break your back" when walking down the sidewalk, it is not such a big deal. If it runs your life, instead of the Lord, it's a problem...

Answer 5

Who are "We"?...I'm not superstitious...For each person it's a matter of not swallowing everything you hear and studying things for yourself...You don't go with the flow just because Joe cool is doing it or not doing it. You have to use your own mind and discover the 'facts' and not just listen to whoever it might be that agrees with your opinion. So in answer to your question, I have 'evolved'...but will we?...that's a good question and one you'll have to answer for yourself!

Answer 6

While I do not know which beliefs you are speaking of, I can say that some of them have been proven to be true. I am aware that some seem silly to me, but they seem real to others. I say live and let live. In other words agree to disagree and not waste time arguing about something that does not really matter. No offense meant. Really.

Peace

Answer 7

Eventually humankind will evolve beyond religion and learn to understand more and more as time goes on, but for now religion is here for quite some time.

Answer 8

Only when you can physically PROVE without any doubt, over and over again, that such 'superstitious beliefs' do not have any valid basis in fact.

Answer 9

Will we ever evolve at all?
I've never seen it happen. From as far back as we have written text, people are the same now as they have always been.

FYI, I think superstition is hogwash. Jesus Christ is not a superstition. Luck and bad luck are superstitions. Nothing happens by chance, and there is no such thing as luck.

Answer 10

I'm afraid the time is up for evolution. Jesus will be here sooner than most think and that will put an end to fake religions and atheist as well.