Jordan Peterson, Nicholas Nassim Taleb and other popular thinkers contend that even if gods don’t exist, we still need religion, because it evolved to protect us from harms we don’t understand. I wrote about why they are wrong.
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That IS natural selection.
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Which is why I called it natural selection.
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@robertwrighter wrote elegantly about this in The Evolution of God. There are many examples of religions adopting the gods of their vanquished foes and weaving them into their own myths. Interesting indeed.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Are you arguing religious people killed all the atheists? and that's why only civilizations with religion survived and flourished?
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Religion evolved with the human brain, when our ancestors first started burying the dead and asking questions.
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There you have it, religion historically create stronger groups. Why? Purpose trumps understanding. Atheism doesn’t unify around any purpose.
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