I would highly suggest those reading this first understand that if you do accept evolution, then you need to understand that religion isn't a necessity but an outcome of our species gap filling. Accepting that that outcome isn't going to stop, does not mean we refrain from challenging our perceptions of reality. If we didn't do that our species would not be where we are today.
Our species pattern seeking is literally coming from natural selection, group survival and fight or flight. But in that natural reality, more often than not we gap fill rather than test. That is stemming from the same quick answer a antelope might make in deciding if that swaying grass is mere wind, or a predator stalking it, it doesn't always have time to assess that reality.
Dawkins and aptly so in "The God Delusion" describes this flawed perception as being the same as a moth mistaking the light bulb for moonlight. That is literally where religion is coming from. It only has a real benefit in creating numbers, but it is not real in the sense that it was ever required. Bad perceptions of reality can create success in a group, just like the Egyptians were successful in the false perceptions in all the polytheistic gods we know never existed.
No calls to end religion by force merely for suggesting one consider that it is merely an outcome due to our flawed evolution.
Our species pattern seeking is literally coming from natural selection, group survival and fight or flight. But in that natural reality, more often than not we gap fill rather than test. That is stemming from the same quick answer a antelope might make in deciding if that swaying grass is mere wind, or a predator stalking it, it doesn't always have time to assess that reality.
Dawkins and aptly so in "The God Delusion" describes this flawed perception as being the same as a moth mistaking the light bulb for moonlight. That is literally where religion is coming from. It only has a real benefit in creating numbers, but it is not real in the sense that it was ever required. Bad perceptions of reality can create success in a group, just like the Egyptians were successful in the false perceptions in all the polytheistic gods we know never existed.
No calls to end religion by force merely for suggesting one consider that it is merely an outcome due to our flawed evolution.
