(August 5, 2018 at 6:18 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: I wanted to share my views on the human need regarding the pursuit of religious knowledge. In other words I am reflecting on the "why" in this context; asking: "why are you chasing the idea of the existence of a God?"
"What's in it for you", is another question so interrelated with the "why"; actually answering the "what" would automatically mean that the why is answered.
Why do you want to know if God exists or not? what made you feel alerted and feel the urge to chase such a terminology, validating if it was right or wrong?
We humans never give something any long-term attention (the idea of God is present since the dawn of time) until it makes a huge impact on our existence, for example I don't notice the "absence of winged unicorns" because simply: "winged unicorns have no effect on my life".
God -on the other hand- is given all this positive and negative attention; literally we can say that the concept of God is innate capacity in any society. Religion existed with humanity since the first recorded days of history, why didn't the idea die out?
Yes; it has a huge impact that cannot be ignored, no matter what.
The amount of reaction to religion is evidence in itself that the concept of God existed, will exist no matter what.
People always seek God. And God's presence is felt no matter what.
Bad guesses are a matter of evolution. It stems from fight or flight, and life does not always have time to slow down and asses and test to insure the perception is correct. As Richard Dawkins put it his book "The God Delusion", it is like a antelope seeing the tall grass sway. The antelope doesn't have time to decide if it is mere wind, or a lion stalking it.
"God" is merely the bad guess of projecting our qualities onto the world around us. In our species early evolution, we didn't have our modern knowledge. If a volcano affected us, we'd falsely presume it was a cognitive being with super powers over us. If we were affected by weather or animal migration, we'd attribute that to a magical cognition either providing or punishing us. Deities later on took on more human like qualities in the forms of written religion in polytheism and monotheism that we know today.
Most humans get sold the religion of their parents at birth prior to developing adult critical thinking skills. So the argument that "God belief" is in us is misunderstood.
