Apostle John
“Go ahead, look up Revelation 6”
You sound like your deflecting my question but I know man is 6000 years old. Just what has been achieved by them recorded in history in the past 200 years would support that.
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Is religion biologically ingrained?
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ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Nobody should be guessing. We should be looking at the available evidence.
An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens
Scientists share the findings that helped them pinpoint key moments in the rise of our species
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
ROTFLMAO!
syo
Well-Known Member
Only paganism is.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
Yeah, I still do that and Heaven and Hell differently. And for certainty which is subjective I am as certain as you are.
an anarchist
Your local loco.
You should totally create a thread in the Science and Religion forum about the age of Homo Sapiens.
In that forum, scientific evidence is key
Apostle John
“Go ahead, look up Revelation 6”
Yeah maybe, after what man has achieved in the past 200 years I’m looking forward to see what ‘science’ guesses the age of Homo Sapiens to be, supported with evidence of course.You should totally create a thread in the Science and Religion forum about the age of Homo Sapiens.
In that forum, scientific evidence is key
Augustus
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If by religion you mean a need to create narratives that are not objectively true yet connect us to something larger than the self and make sense of (certain aspects of) the world then yes.
Probably the only thing, AFAIK, that differentiates us from other animals is our need to make meaning from our surroundings. This is equally true of those who consider themselves irreligious as it is for those who consider themselves religious.
(For me there is no meaningful difference between a "religious" belief system and an "irreligious" one)
I think religion is mostly culturally ingrained, and if religious teaching was removed from schooling until children were much older then we might see if it was biologically ingrained. And what I mean by removing, is that directed learning towards one particular religious belief system. Nothing wrong with teaching all about the various beliefs however - and no such. And as others have mentioned, the quest for knowledge and meaning tends to be so strong in humans because we seem to have the capability to do so much, even if we must know that we cannot have all the answers. Filling in the gaps seems to be one of our favourite hobbies.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
I think religion is mostly culturally ingrained, and if religious teaching was removed from schooling until children were much older then we might see if it was biologically ingrained. And what I mean by removing, is that directed learning towards one particular religious belief system. Nothing wrong with teaching all about the various beliefs however - and no such. And as others have mentioned, the quest for knowledge and meaning tends to be so strong in humans because we seem to have the capability to do so much, even if we must know that we cannot have all the answers. Filling in the gaps seems to be one of our favourite hobbies.
Well, as long as you also teach them to be critical and skeptical of even being critical and skeptical, then fine with me.
But that includes being skeptical of you are rational and I am not and so in reverse.
Teaching children to think for themselves and to question everything would be an aim but it might interfere with a lot of their education.
Best to do what is appropriate for their age and maturity - and more in a neutral way than indoctrination - so as to give them at least some freedom.
There are at several very much not convergent traits that are often associated in some combination with some conception or another of religiosity that may be biologically ingrained. Or more properly, neurologically ingrained. Not all will always be present, and many are in fact in direct conflict with each other.
Some of them:
* Feelings of uncertainty and desire for authority figures that provide immediate answers for difficult questions
* Anxiety when faced with the certainty of death
* Pursuit of conception, expression and actualization of some set of moral virtues
* Perception and expression of some form of feeling of the sacred
* Belief in an ultimate conscious will behind "everything"
* Social cohesion and mutual support (or at least the superficial appearance of same)
Edited to add: however, I think that the main forces behind religiosity and even theism are social in nature.
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'd say it's learned behavior but it is feasible people who don't understand something might jump to conclusions about it as well as the introspection that follows.
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
Type 2 cognition errors are. Aka superstition.
Religion is just a manifestation / escalation / result / whatever-you-wish-to-call-it of that.
This is not just so in humans. Most animals are prone to superstition / cognition errors.
It's the superstition / cognition errors that provides survival advantage.
Again, not just in humans but in most animals. Especially those that are hunted down by predators.
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
~250.000 years.
And it's not a guess. It's based on the oldest found fossils of homo sapiens.
Meaning that homo sapiens as a species already existed at the time.
So it's a minimum.
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
LOL
So all the buildings and temples older then 6000 years were build by whom?
Leprechauns?
And the hundreds, if not thousands, of human fossils much much older then 6000 years came about how? Planted there by extra-dimensional unicorns?
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
Out of curiosity.....
How in your twisted mind, is the technological advance of the past 2 centuries related to how old homo sapiens are as a species?