RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
May 9, 2018 at 9:09 am
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2018 at 9:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 9, 2018 at 8:42 am)Quick Wrote: Thanks for explaining that.NP, I enjoy putting religious and evolutionary development in complimentary contexts.
Quote:I have to ask how you know that in a vacuum that humans defer to not believing in God when left to their own devices. (I am not sure this is what you are saying, however.)It's not really an issue of "not doing something" or even deferring. There;s simply no cognate to act on, do anything to, or not do anything to. It's not that we couldn't build those cognates by ourselves..(there had to be a first deist in every village, after all).....it;s just that whatever connections we might build ourselves (in a vacuum) would take time, and are interfered with by our prevailing cultural and societal narratives. The main factor in a persons religious beliefs are the beliefs of their parents - their first and most trusted influencers. Second after that is their immediate peer group - with a strong bias for mates.
Quote:I say this because you state culture/society function isn't hardwired into us. I don't know how/why you make this claim.There is no american christian™ gene. Neither culture nor society are heritable. That's how. My wife is a believer. I;m not. We didn't birth theist/atheist f1 hybrids. There's no such thing.
Again, though, all of this is just elaboration on what ought to be a completely uncontroversial point. Are babys born believing in gods?? No, ofc not, were not cognizant of much at all at our birth.
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