Evolution's reason for God

[Eilonnwy]

We must first always remember that evolution favors characteristics that help survival, but that doesn't mean there perfect and benign changes can be cultivated to later be disadvantageous. Take for example Vitamin C. Most animals produce their own Vitamin C so they don't have to eat it. Humans can't produce Vitamin C so if they don't eat it they get scurvy. Turns out we have the gene to produce vitamin c but it's broken. Possibly broken because when mutations happened that broke it, it may have been benign because the diet held enough fruit and so the animals didn't die and propgated the gene. Eventually the gene just stopped working so that everyone became dependant on getting Vitamin C through food. The apes, our common ancestor, have this same problem. So here's an example of a disadvantageous evolution.

We know religion probably started out as animism and evolved into what we have today. Dawkin's has a great possible explanation in The God Delusion for how religion could have happened as a byproduct. For example, a child has a evolved to trust his parents completely. If a child is told not to venture into a river because it's infested with crocodiles, that child can't afford to test it out. It dies. So the dependency upon parents has evolved to keep children alive to have it's own offspring, for which it will give the same instruction. But at the same time that trust can be abused (unknowingly or knowingly) to say there's a demon in that river. It's not true, but that belief persists and thus a myth is born.

Given the fact that human's used to so desperately lack any reasonable explanation of the sun rising every morning, and how it rains and contribute to that our ability to misinterpret and embelish facts, it's no wonder these supersitious religions developed. There real mystery is why they persist when everything once attributed to god is proven tp be scientificly explained.