Quote:And as tribal animals, we naturally care more about our own than somebody else's.
Right, evolution produces group cooperation to ensure survival. But as far as "delusion" it does exist in evolution. Evolution's goal isn't to be right about facts, the only goal it has is to get to the point of reproduction. If that group think provides safety in numbers, the belief can be false, but still provide the real advantage of that safety leading to reproduction. The Ancient Egyptians falsely, for 3000 years, believed that the sun was a god. That false belief served that society well for a long time.
But there is nothing wrong with calling a delusion a delusion. Humans are not wired to be rational 100percent of every second of their lives. That doesn't make them defective, but it does make them delusional and wrong when they are delusional and wrong.
Our fight and flight mechanism often leads our species to seek patterns and insert ridiculous gap answers into those "patterns". Richard Dawkins describes this flaw in evolution as being "the moth mistaking the light bulb for moon light".
Our species had more of an excuse to make crap up and believe it back then, because we didn't know any better. But we do now, our problem is that evolution is not, like I said, about fact finding, but merely about reproduction and safety in numbers.
I think the more numbers in our species that understand evolution, we can see that we are flawed and can see ourselves as not above nature, but merely part of all the flaws and benefits of nature.
