(November 30, 2020 at 12:17 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: 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.
God belief is a heritable traits are your words, not mine. What I have posited from the beginning is the theorizing (hypothesizing) of cognitive byproduct that gives rise to believing in a supernatural entity due to other cognitive abilities like pattern seeking and theory of mind.
The links you asked and I provided allude to the question, "is there enough there to formulate a hypothesis"? I think so. I think it's a plausible hypothesis.
Saying that is not saying "god belief is heritable" - (although I do believe it, but it's a belief, not a proof –– a lot of people also believe in multiverses on some plausible basis, but they don't have a proof –– so there is a distinction here).
