Evolutionary biology adopting religious traits

[Alex K]

Your humble won't last 10 seconds against my boundless humility, and my self-doubt will crush you.

[downbeatplumb]

Your humble won't last 10 seconds against my boundless humility, and my self-doubt will crush you.

I am the humblest of you all bitches, behold my meekness or blow me.

[robvalue]

Well I have my own TV show coming out, forceably broadcast onto every channel 24 hours a day, explaining in detail just how amazing I am at being humble.

[Alex K]

I have a team of performers singing the praises for my humility while doing a kind of dance around my monument. With all the humble people nowadays, it really is challenging to build a strong brand of humility, but I learn from the best, the Catholic church.

[bennyboy]

Part of the problem is that whenever I mention the idea of science and secular humanism taking on religious characteristics, the resident proponents blow a gasket.

It is quite simple. Science uses evidence, empirical data and logic. Religions use "goddidit". They have nothing in common.

I don't think it's quite that simple. I'm pretty sure that many religious doctrines came out of primitive "science." For example, not eating shellfish, or not storing pork, meat or dairy in particular circumstances, would be an observation-- and the religious commandments could bypass the ignorance and superstitions that made people suspicious of any changes they were told they should make.

[robvalue]

That's a good point. And quite ironic. Back then, they hid science in religion to make it more palatable. Now they are doing the opposite.