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Belief?
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Belief?
Religion has grown up with humanity and has evolved along with us. From the early days when humans huddled around the camp fire and stared into the night sky wondering what powerful beings were making those lights in the sky, all the way to the highly organised religions of today.

Presumably then religion has (or had) an evolutionary advantage in those early tribal days giving some sort of structure to a group and helping them bind together in a collective manner. This would also suggest then that 'belief' itself is in some way hard wired into us which itself leads me to ponder a couple of questions.

Did religion grow up because of a desire to believe or was it the other way around and, does anyone here have any beliefs for which there is no evidence and may never be?
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Belief? - by Darwinian - September 17, 2008 at 4:43 am
RE: Belief? - by dagda - September 17, 2008 at 11:08 am
RE: Belief? - by Jason Jarred - September 17, 2008 at 7:48 pm
RE: Belief? - by josef rosenkranz - September 17, 2008 at 2:59 pm
RE: Belief? - by dagda - September 18, 2008 at 10:38 am
RE: Belief? - by Jason Jarred - September 18, 2008 at 6:51 pm
RE: Belief? - by dagda - September 20, 2008 at 10:55 am
RE: Belief? - by Ace Otana - September 20, 2008 at 4:10 pm
RE: Belief? - by dagda - September 21, 2008 at 5:24 am
RE: Belief? - by Meatball - September 22, 2008 at 11:17 pm
RE: Belief? - by Edwardo Piet - September 23, 2008 at 12:55 am
RE: Belief? - by dagda - September 23, 2008 at 2:03 pm
RE: Belief? - by Jason Jarred - September 23, 2008 at 7:12 pm
RE: Belief? - by dagda - September 24, 2008 at 10:37 am
RE: Belief? - by chatpilot - September 24, 2008 at 10:47 am
RE: Belief? - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2008 at 6:38 pm
RE: Belief? - by Alan - September 30, 2008 at 6:05 am
RE: Belief? - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2008 at 8:10 am
RE: Belief? - by Alan - October 1, 2008 at 8:11 am
RE: Belief? - by Edwardo Piet - October 1, 2008 at 8:54 am

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