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In reply to the discussion: Do primates practice religion? [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,992 posts)21. It doesn't matter what I care about.
things like human rights and freedom from want and internecine strife if that happens to be something you care about.
That's exactly the thing - all that matters is what nature cares about. There's no guarantee that anything like human rights or freedom or science or reason or any of that matters. All that matters is what nature selects. It might be total psychopaths, or it may be the meek. It may be religion, it may be rationality.
Invisible sky daddy can whip all the other's asses seems a remarkably unproductive way to spend our energies.
Seems like it, but why did religions propagate all over other earth, on to every continent? Wouldn't some group of people come to that same conclusion, and with all their gained energies become powerful over their neighbours, and propagate their disbelief? Yet that didn't happen, until very recent times.
That's exactly the thing - all that matters is what nature cares about. There's no guarantee that anything like human rights or freedom or science or reason or any of that matters. All that matters is what nature selects. It might be total psychopaths, or it may be the meek. It may be religion, it may be rationality.
Invisible sky daddy can whip all the other's asses seems a remarkably unproductive way to spend our energies.
Seems like it, but why did religions propagate all over other earth, on to every continent? Wouldn't some group of people come to that same conclusion, and with all their gained energies become powerful over their neighbours, and propagate their disbelief? Yet that didn't happen, until very recent times.
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OK, the title may miss the point, but the book and the review are not about humans.
cbayer
Jun 2013
#6
Evidently we don't share a common definition of the term "biological evolution"
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#49
Purpose implies intelligence, evolution certainly has effects but it is not intelligent
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#28
Purposeful trial and error has a lot higher success rate than does evolution
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#34
I don't think you can identify an 'optimal state of information' for a species
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#60
What I'm refering to is units of cultural information acting as genes.
napoleon_in_rags
Jun 2013
#62
Hope you are able to find it. I am on a road trip and would like to find it on audio.
cbayer
Jun 2013
#13
Thinking about religion rationally, and religiousity being innate are not mutually exclusive.
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2013
#10