(December 7, 2010 at 6:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Chuck, did you ever read Dawkins' take on religion as a bad by-product of a good evolutionary idea?
I read his take of it in the God Dilusion. But just causal observation of simpler components of human behavior such as thrill in social dominance, subservience for personal social gain, delight in the make belief makes it very easy to construct possible evolutionary reasons of the complex behavioral idiosyncracies of religion.
Nothing disproves the notion that humans were intelligently designed by god, but is rather the frankensteinian end product of evolutionarily derived components mostly shaped by factors other than civilization, then the fact that humans were so unsuited to civilization as to believe god.
