RE: Evolutionary explanation of religion
November 30, 2020 at 12:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2020 at 12:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
This doesn't posit god belief as a heritable trait, or present an evolutionary explanation for god belief. It's the boilerplate assertion that human biology is involved in human thought.
If agent mentalization where the evolutionary explanation for god beliefs there would be even more god believers than there are, and we would have expected to see evidence of god belief much sooner in the archaeological record. We're all capable of that, and the possession of that ability does not seem to confer god belief now or in the past.
We seem to have stumbled into exactly the sort of thing that Angrboda cautioned against back on page one.
If agent mentalization where the evolutionary explanation for god beliefs there would be even more god believers than there are, and we would have expected to see evidence of god belief much sooner in the archaeological record. We're all capable of that, and the possession of that ability does not seem to confer god belief now or in the past.
We seem to have stumbled into exactly the sort of thing that Angrboda cautioned against back on page one.
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