What is the evolutionary advantage to religion?

Are you insulting TEists or am I not understanding this ?Ray M.

Existence of the Deity ?RM

Secular rant. Show me a quick and easy religion ?Unheard of cults do not count. Logical. Then what excuse did the Marxists of the Soviet Union, China, and Southeast Asia have ? (100 million murdered in the 20th century)Of course, Marxist is a euphemism in this case. Predictible Darwinian rant. But if we descend from apes/gorillas..... As old as the prostitutes who gave themself in the Temple of Diana.RM

Define "selective" in this context ?RM

I made an observation.RM

By ensuring your attempts at procreation will be successful.The God of the Bible: "Be fruitful and multiply".How does God do it ? Genesis 38: 9,10

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And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

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And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.This passage exists within the context of God's promise to Abraham - that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sand on the seashore.Blowing your climax on the ground instead of inside the oven (when you knew what God wanted) got Onan killed.This is one method to ensure impregnation RMThis message has been edited by Ray Martinez, 05-17-2005 07:16 PM

Yes.The pool of offspring were more protected than a "heathen" pool.The Abrahamic pool was promised to numerically become as the "stars of heaven/sand on seashore."This analogy makes one of the following population groups Abraham's descendants:1) Africans2) Chinese3) Slavic4) CelticOther designated attributes of these peoples identify the Celts as the descendants of Abraham.It is historical fact that the Celtic nations, namely, Great Britain and the U.S. are repsonsible for evangelizing the world. To a certain degree - yes. Don't really understand your question.But the mechanism above is the Deity being in control.RM