Social Darwinism: Right or Wrong

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somewhere around 90,000 to 60,000 years ago, it is believed that the modern human population fell to as few as 600-10,000 individuals (there are 3 major theories, each with their own time and number of individuals, these are the widest ranges). We, as a species, teetered on the brink of extinction. Did we survive because these individuals were only looking out for themselves? No. They survived, and therefore we are here today, because they worked together.

Wow....I didn't know that. Cool point =D

Since you are receptive to this, I'd also point out that these early people also had their own religions. They buried their dead and tended their graves, which suggests they believed in ancestor worship or an afterlife of some sort. But this was well before the advent of a singular deity, let alone the notion of "God" as you would describe it... Just food for thought... Religion might have saved the human race during the last ice age, allowing for a stronger sense of community, which would allow a viable biological population to repopulate the Earth as it is today. But there's nothing to say that we cannot exist without religion today... That we can bind ourselves into a community without the need of a deity for which there is no empirical evidence. Just sayin'.