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What could a omnipotent God want with the worship of humans?
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RE: What could a omnipotent God want with the worship of humans?
(November 20, 2014 at 12:14 pm)Drich Wrote:
(November 20, 2014 at 10:00 am)Alex K Wrote: Drich, you do know that our desire to care for our children is a very simply understood evolutionary trait which is shared by all other animals. It has nothing to do with our being in some divine being's image.

That's not true. Not even close. the 'evolutionary need to care for our children/young' typically ends shortly after the can care for themselves, some even go as far as adolesence, but once they hit a certain age they 'family' is typically broken up. It is very rare even for higher cognitive able animals to maintain close relationships with off spring for a whole life time.
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Hardly. Being a good grandmother or grandfather does have evolutionary advantages because it increases the possibility that your progeny will continue, which is what natural selection selects for. Not surprisingly there are many species, admittedly mostly primates, in which continued the support of older sisters and mothers is the primary factor in determining whether a first time mother will successfully raise her young to adulthood. And there are other species that do similar things. Elephant herds are matriarchies run by the great-grandma.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: What could a omnipotent God want with the worship of humans? - by Jenny A - November 20, 2014 at 12:43 pm

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