(September 23, 2010 at 11:54 pm)jason56 Wrote:(September 23, 2010 at 10:35 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:but religion IS a massive part of our evolution
No, it is not.
Religions are a cultural constructs, invented to meet the needs of the people and societies who invent them. Religions do not evolve, they disintegrates,in the face of reason, evidence,changing needs and the fall of empires. They become quaint and irrelevant.
The Egyptian religion survived for over 3000 years.Christianity is less than 2000 years old and already in decline. I suspect it will disappear within the next two hundred years. I don't say that with malice or pleasure.I have no doubt the vacuum left by Christianity will be replaced by something just as bad, possibly worse..
Please explain a world where humans didn't look up and worship a giant ball a fire (the sun).
Can you do that?
What do you think we would have done without religion as part of our human make up?
Got better at football?
It's not part of our evolution though. It's a cultural thing. Nothing more. In the same way that morris dancing isn't part of evolution. It's purely cultural. Nothing to do with us adapting to survive.
