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To: koan who wrote (236682)	11/3/2013 9:17:34 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 542147

Evolution has made a great bet that social life is much more important to our survival than individual life. This was a subject of great debate until fairly recently (i.e are humans social by nature or did we make a calculated bet and formed societies). But the debate has been settled thanks to MRI. Despite their claim to the contrary, religions are less concerned with gods and more with setting the social rules of conduct. The formation of larger societies is considerably easier if people believe an all powerful being is watching them even far away from home and where no one is around. You can argue that the thought came first and we made the gods later. But it is hard to dispute that those who believed in gods, afterlife, etc formed more cohesive units and prevailed over those who did not...which in turn spread their genes more and led to a more ingrained religious dna (or if that is too heavy, then selected those with genes who had grater capacity to fathom beyond the here and now with a "religious" bias). This is not really a chicken and egg issue. It is a positive feedback loop. So it really doesn't matter what put the wheel into motion. Each component strengthened the other one. ST

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