the importance of religion in intellegent life form evolution
Theory on religious evolutionary growth- points/ notes
--- Religion helped societies form and societies evolved humans minds-
Humans have always been superstitious animals, using myths and simple ideas about supernatural beings to explain the world around them. As early humans began to conglomerate into larger groups holding these groups together and getting them to work towards common goals would have been increasingly difficult. This is where leadership comes into play, to direct and hold together large societies a leader who everyone followed was glue to holding together what would have fallen into smaller pieces. Holding these societies together was integral to the advances that led to creation of modern civilization. Ancient leaders "preserved law codes, and justified their rule by proclaiming their king to be DIVINE" (making of the west, people and cultures pg 13) This holds true in every large ancient society, such as Egypt, Mayans, Inca, Aztec etcetera. As these large societies grew their common people would have had to have feared and respected their leaders under the strong belief that they were Divine or else they would not be so willing to follow their words and laws. However the members of early society had a distinct advantage over people who were not in a society; they had more food and shelter and protection allowing them to reproduce offspring in larger numbers which allowed their genetic code to propagate greatly. Over large expanses of time, through allocations of epigenetics these societal humans bread strongly the psychological traits based around gullibility complexes/ blind faith along with distinct physical structures in the brain such as the “god spot”, traits that are passed on to further generations.
The conditions of Society itself evolved the human mind to readily except religious beliefs and experience strong religious feelings and ideals-- a result of natural selection a process which favored those who made the
--- Religion helped societies form and societies evolved humans minds-
Humans have always been superstitious animals, using myths and simple ideas about supernatural beings to explain the world around them. As early humans began to conglomerate into larger groups holding these groups together and getting them to work towards common goals would have been increasingly difficult. This is where leadership comes into play, to direct and hold together large societies a leader who everyone followed was glue to holding together what would have fallen into smaller pieces. Holding these societies together was integral to the advances that led to creation of modern civilization. Ancient leaders "preserved law codes, and justified their rule by proclaiming their king to be DIVINE" (making of the west, people and cultures pg 13) This holds true in every large ancient society, such as Egypt, Mayans, Inca, Aztec etcetera. As these large societies grew their common people would have had to have feared and respected their leaders under the strong belief that they were Divine or else they would not be so willing to follow their words and laws. However the members of early society had a distinct advantage over people who were not in a society; they had more food and shelter and protection allowing them to reproduce offspring in larger numbers which allowed their genetic code to propagate greatly. Over large expanses of time, through allocations of epigenetics these societal humans bread strongly the psychological traits based around gullibility complexes/ blind faith along with distinct physical structures in the brain such as the “god spot”, traits that are passed on to further generations.
The conditions of Society itself evolved the human mind to readily except religious beliefs and experience strong religious feelings and ideals-- a result of natural selection a process which favored those who made the