RE: The evolution of God...
March 27, 2018 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2018 at 10:06 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 23, 2018 at 11:49 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Guys, been thinking. (Nah, not really).
Did man create God(s) as an evolutionary coping mechanism?
Throughout history, do you think the God(s) present and past have had a total net sum positive effect on our species as a whole?
OK, a lot of people were killed through superstition and ignorance. We cannot blame the God characters entirely for this as woo has been part of our evolution from the start.
It is really only relatively recently that science has been able to dissolve most woo with better, more effective answers to "mysterious" questions.
Maybe without our God crutches, we wouldn't be here today?
Maybe God is a necessary evil? (pardon the pun) we needed to get to this point.
But my real question, is have we as a species matured enough to confidently say that the crutch is not needed anymore?
Considering human greed, etc, and the % of suffering in the world, I'd say God is needed more than ever? Ironical isn't it.
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and 75% of all life on earth 64.5 million years ago most certainly had an more positive on our specie as a whole than any god could even conceivably have. It demonstrably made it possible for us to be here.
Yet I do not pray to it nor have faith in it.
