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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion

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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (70)	5/7/2003 11:25:16 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 520

> So if believe in relativity of time or in the atomic structure those exist only inside my head and have no reality beyond that? Absolutely. We perceive that world and it works for us who understand those concepts. Unlike Mr. Magueijo's super string theory, Einstein's Relativity has been tested hundreds of times and has come true. But that was not the point I was making. Perhaps I should have put it this way: do you continue to exist if I stop believing you are there? Do you mean social settings like a tribe or a band mainly for mutual protection and existence, usually with a patriarch in charge of a harem, with outcasts and separation common like many other wild kingdom animals trying to survive. More than genetic I believe they are the ones that survived because of gathering together than alone. That is a bit of chicken and egg problem, but only to a small point. Whether or not social behavior crept into the genes because the more social segments survived is irrelevant. The point is that they are in our genes and I do believe in behaving in a manner I was designed to behave. In the case of religious belief and spirituality, I never thought they had had an effect on human evolution. But I've read evolutionary psychology essays and anthropological essays that have shown the effect of compassion and belief in after life as deciding factors in survival of our humanoid ancestors. Interesting enough, that was not the point those papers were trying to make at all. But in the course of discussing various members of human family and their social lives, this became a clear (though unstated) conclusion. On the other hand, if you are claiming there is no genetic component to the social behavior of animals, then I can come up with plenty of examples to the contrary. I do not believe that some animals stay social and act in certain way because they have thought it out while others, many of whom are further up on the intelligence scale, have never managed to figure it out over the millions of years. Perhaps the simplest example of such collective behavior which is genetically motivated is the mating process of the corals in the reef. Every coral releases its seeds (male and female) on a single night during the year in which the tide is highest. This group sex is the most basic social behavior of one of the most primitive creatures that is otherwise unable to have a social life.

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