Why does evolution favor religion?

Religion is a holdover from the youth of civilization, and should have been outgrown centuries ago.

It lingers on like a chronic disease, despite its anachronistic basis in a belief in magic.

Viewed in an objective, historical, and anthropological sense, there is a clear progression:

Animism to Shamanism to Polytheism to Monotheism to Atheism.

Unfortunately the progression has stalled at the second to last step for too long for too much of humanity.

Our behaviour evolves for survival and reproduction rather than to correspond with reality. A blind worm has no awareness of light because it needs none. Similarly, we miss out on a whole world of smell. Our cognitive approach is to do with what promotes our survival.

Religion is complex. It is usually, though not always, a set of memes. It arises from various sources, including a tendency to make associations between things which seem to correlate, from social instincts and from common beliefs arising within groups. However, the details need have no specific purpose. A peacock's tail and a stag's antlers have the same function - exuberant display of conspicuous energy use indicating reproductive fitness - but that doesn't mean there needs to be an explanation for why a stag hasn't got an elaborate bunch of feathers on his tail or a peacock antlers!

The religions which are most successful are the evangelistic ones because they spread the meme. One of the least successful is Jainism because it seeks no converts. Judaism and Zoroastrianism are also limited in that way. Buddhism, Christianity and Islam are more widespread because they are more likely to be passed on, but there have been instances of sects within them which limit themselves and are generally unsuccessful in those terms because of that.

However, none of that has a bearing on whether religions are true or not. Simply because evolution favours the appearance of religion in our species (and to a limited extent others, such as gorillas and chimpanzees, which have rituals) doesn't mean it's not valid.

evolution does not in fact favour religion. Evolution is a biological process of change in allele frequency over time.

The reason why many societies have some kind of religious belief is basically because we had no idea how the world worked so people made stuff up.

Affluence has little to do with affluence on the tip of the day, otherwise the prosperous may well be predicted to outbreed the unfavourable and that by no potential happens. Christianity is a cultural composite actual reinterpreted which permits it to evolve immediately to verify changing social circumstances. that it got here approximately to be the religion of the countries that led the Enlightenment substitute into little extra advantageous than satisfied twist of fate. interior the subsequent century we are going to see all the affluence slide in the direction of east asia. do we then be saying that Buddhism and Taoism is the religion favoured of evolution? Splash Frog> thank you on your anglophile/cymruphile techniques-set, yet this u . s . has unquestionably considered extra useful days!

The Law of Cause and Effect. This law of science states that every cause has its effect and every effect has its cause. This law is the basis of all science. As such, this law bears a relationship to the origin of the heavens and the earth. In fact, scientists agree that the universe has not existed forever, that it had a beginning at some point in time.

1. Whatever begins to exist must have a cause for its existence.

2. The universe began to exist.

3. Therefore, the universe must have a cause for its existence.

4. The attributes of the cause of the universe (being timeless, existing outside of space, and so on) are the attributes of God.

5. Therefore, the cause of the universe including Mars must be God (Genesis 1:1).

1. Reality is an illusion.

2. Reality is/was self-created.

3. Reality is self-existent (eternal).

4. Reality was created by something that is self-existent.

• Something exists.

• You do not get something from nothing.

• Therefore a necessary and eternal “something” exists.

• The only two options are an eternal universe and an eternal Creator.

• Science and philosophy have disproven the concept of an eternal universe.

• Therefore, an eternal Creator exists.

Steelers you've commited 2 logical fallacies. First you appeal to intuition then you say there is only 2 options, essentially you've stacked the deck. Who's to say there is only 2 options? You made that up. Back to the intuition!

Religion provides a starting point from which to work further, if you do it right.

It also provides a social grouping, which makes it easier to find a mate sometimes.

Religion is spread and sustained through indoctrination and ignorance. Simple as that.

It's not so much a product of evolution as it is of human society.

Hope, humans need hope. Doesn't matter where they get it from. Unless the same source leads them to destroy each other.