The need to believe?

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Would it matter if we had developed an instinct for "seeking god"?  No, and that -is- whateverists point.  Something more is required for advocacy - what you're offering, completely aside of it's shoddy relationship to truth...is just lazy.

I;m more than willing to grant that we developed such an instinct...but probably not for seeking "god" - more like for seeking out dinner and threats of becoming dinner.  For "seeking out" intentionality..not the least of which, a human being hiding in the brush.  More projection..but hey.....we're evolved creatures..so you expect the features to have kinks.

I was replying to Deidre's dilemma about reasoning that there is no God, but feeling the need for spirituality. I responded that I believed that a need for spiritually is instinctive. So it does matter that we have an instinct for seeking God, which could be a factor in her situation.