Is religion biologically ingrained?

[ratiocinator]

If that were true which it is not, you have just, in your own words, disproved the Theory of Evolution..

You are joking, right?

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

If that were true which it is not, you have just, in your own words, disproved the Theory of Evolution..

How?

 

[Heyo]

If that were true which it is not, you have just, in your own words, disproved the Theory of Evolution..

What exactly didn't you understand?
That there are cliffs in the south of England, over 100 m high?
That these cliffs are formed out of chalk?
That the chalk is composed by coccolithophores?
That only a maximum number of entities can live in an environment at the same time?

Btw: how old are you? What kind of education do you have? You're home schooled, aren't you?

 

[wellwisher]

Is religion biologically ingrained in the human brain? Is that a reason why many are religious/spiritual?

Does my question make sense?

Like, what if spiritual homo sapiens had survival advantages such as emotional comfort?

My guess is yes, based on the principles of natural selection and evolution.

Religion has had a prominent role in most cultures since the start of civilization; 6-10K years ago. Being with the program; part of a specific regional or cultural religion, gave one selective advantages in that culture; special place in heaven. While being an heretic often had dire consequences. The result was focusing breeding; human gene pool along the lines of religious selection.

I believe you can take people out of religion, but not religion out of the people. The religion behavioral genes that took thousands of years to achieve and will not end overnight. Rather they will morph into alternative pseudo flavored religions.

For example, end of the world scenarios are part of many religions; Revelations and the Great flood. Non religious still use the end of the world template today; doom and gloom of climate change, due to the industrial sins of man. This is a morph of the original stories, but with the same impact on the modern repressed imagination. It is not coincidence that the political party that tries to destroy religion, ends up leading a morph. A vacuum is created and then in inner need arises which make it easy to induce the repressed imagination, along the templates of history.

We need to redefine religion since the morph religions tend to be more dangerous. The Spanish Inquisition was not taught by Jesus, but rather is more common to secular dictators, who become paranoid playing politics and god.

 

[an anarchist]

Btw: how old are you? What kind of education do you have? You're home schooled, aren't you?

FYI, I have a PhD in organic synthetic chemistry.

I asked in another thread.

I always like to take people's word here, as I really don't have any way to tell if someone is lying through a screen.

 

[Heyo]

I asked in another thread.

I always like to take people's word here, as I really don't have any way to tell if someone is lying through a screen.

There are PhDs working for the DI and AiG, mostly those who are too bad in their field to progress there and who can make more money lying for Jesus.
But @Apostle John is too incompetent even at that so I am skeptical towards that claim.

 

[Mock Turtle]

For example, end of the world scenarios are part of many religions; Revelations and the Great flood. Non religious still use the end of the world template today; doom and gloom of climate change, due to the industrial sins of man. This is a morph of the original stories, but with the same impact on the modern repressed imagination. It is not coincidence that the political party that tries to destroy religion, ends up leading a morph. A vacuum is created and then in inner need arises which make it easy to induce the repressed imagination, along the templates of history.

Is this supposed to be a joke - given that knowledge of the so many ways as to life on Earth possibly ending has only come about from science - look them up if you don't already know them - such that whatever was predicted from the past is hardly a template for the reality of today. And stop with the usual right-wing garbage. The vast majority of scientists accept global warming, and as probably caused by human activity.

 

[Hermit Philosopher]

Is religion biologically ingrained in the human brain? Is that a reason why many are religious/spiritual?

Does my question make sense?

Like, what if spiritual homo sapiens had survival advantages such as emotional comfort?

No. But what is a trait of the human brain, is inquisition.

A standardly wired human brain, cannot refrain from trying to make sense of that it encounters. And, it does so by means of the data it possesses at the time.

Humbly,
Hermit

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Is religion biologically ingrained in the human brain? Is that a reason why many are religious/spiritual?

Does my question make sense?

Like, what if spiritual homo sapiens had survival advantages such as emotional comfort?

I would say yes. Religion is found in every culture down through time and around the world. That is a very strong argument that it is biologically engrained.

 

[metis]

I would say yes. Religion is found in every culture down through time and around the world. That is a very strong argument that it is biologically engrained.

I lean in this direction as well. Even with cave drawings going back tens of thousands of years we see evidence of deities.

 

[Khabeni412]

In some ways. We developed superstition because of larger frontal lobes during an ice age when we ate more meat. So superstition is a biological phenomenon.

Religion itself is a cultural co-evolution. Religion is basically a side effect of our developed as a society (and evolution).

For example, agriculture is somewhat responsible for the development of monotheism. Agriculture allowed for an uneven distribution of wealth. That lead to hierarchy. Those that controlled the food suppy controlled the people.This lead to leaders coming foward, such as kings, queens, nobles, pharaohs, etc.

Most early leaders believed they were appointed by the gods. Some wanted there to be one God to represent them. Akhenoten of Egypt was one of the first leaders who claimed that there was one God. Many of Akhenoten's traits of monotheism carried over into Judaism.

 

[TLK Valentine]

No. But what is a trait of the human brain, is inquisition.

A standardly wired human brain, cannot refrain from trying to make sense of that it encounters. And, it does so by means of the data it possesses at the time.

Humbly,
Hermit

What you're describing sounds like pattern recognition - we try to explain the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar.

Mnn create things, therefore every"thing" must have been created by some kind of super "men" - ergo, "Gods."

 

[gnostic]

You can’t date rocks by stars and stars by rocks, that’s tautology and is the same for any dating procedure you come up with, it will all be circular reasoning.

“stars”?

@9-10ths_Penguin didn’t write anything about “stars”. This is merely misrepresentation of what 9-10ths_Penguin wrote…all you are doing is spinning strawman.

Penguin did write how about using dendrochronology to verify radiometric dating.

The point is that annual growth of tree rings can tell us a lot of things about surrounding environment and about the locality of Earth’s atmosphere at those times. So the rings can show the severity of droughts or floods, as well as when they occur.

if global flood did occur, then the tree rings of every ancient trees in North America, Europe and Asia, should point to single year in time, of when Noah’s Flood occurred. No such date of such Flood occurred.

Likewise there are no evidence, pointing to single date, from ice core samples from Greenland or from the Antarctica.

And there are no evidence of world-wide single massive flood among archaeological sites.

Sorry, Apostle John, but there are no evidence whatsoever of Noah’s Flood, it is still a myth.

 

[gnostic]

In some ways. We developed superstition because of larger frontal lobes during an ice age when we ate more meat. So superstition is a biological phenomenon.

Religion itself is a cultural co-evolution. Religion is basically a side effect of our developed as a society (and evolution).

For example, agriculture is somewhat responsible for the development of monotheism. Agriculture allowed for an uneven distribution of wealth. That lead to hierarchy. Those that controlled the food suppy controlled the people.This lead to leaders coming foward, such as kings, queens, nobles, pharaohs, etc.

Most early leaders believed they were appointed by the gods. Some wanted there to be one God to represent them. Akhenoten of Egypt was one of the first leaders who claimed that there was one God. Many of Akhenoten's traits of monotheism carried over into Judaism.

While I don’t doubt the agricultural industry were built upon by sedentary lifestyle, and that superstitions developed in those societies. But there are fair bits of misinformation in your post.

For one, the Neolithic industry (eg farming) predated Akhenaten by thousands of years, and farming in Egypt by several thousand years, and Egypt had a long history of polytheistic practices, prior to Akhenaten’s short-lived monotheism, as well as after him.

Judaic monotheism didn’t start until centuries after Akhenaten. I think Judaism started completely independent of Akhenaten.

Beside polytheism vs monotheism, some cult centres believed in many gods, but chose to only to worship one god, was quite prevalent at the time, prior to Judaism…this practise is called henotheism.

 

[Audie]

I asked in another thread.

I always like to take people's word here, as I really don't have any way to tell if someone is lying through a screen.

There are signs, though.
Like if I were to be on a post game
show, claiming to be a foot ball expert.

 

[Bthoth]

Is religion biologically ingrained in the human brain?

NO. All religions are learned, all cases, every time.

Is that a reason why many are religious/spiritual?

NO...... Each conscious life is just inquisitive and seeking to understand.

Does my question make sense?

Yes, as many have reduced to a similar belief.

Like, what if spiritual homo sapiens had survival advantages such as emotional comfort?

Conscious life is capable and experiences empathy. That exchange with it's environment and social interaction is natural.

instinct of mother to infant new born is the starting point. The new born could not survive without that empathy to enable the life to survive.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Is religion biologically ingrained in the human brain? Is that a reason why many are religious/spiritual?

Does my question make sense?

Like, what if spiritual homo sapiens had survival advantages such as emotional comfort?

It could be. Science is already identified the region of the brain that deals with religion.

It's called the... https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/periaqueductal-gray