Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9164 total)
5 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,915 Year: 4,172/9,624 Month: 1,043/974 Week: 2/368 Day: 2/11 Hour: 1/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Can Evolution explain this? (Re: The biological evolution of religious belief)
DominionSeraph
Member (Idle past 4785 days)
Posts: 365
From: on High
Joined: 01-26-2005


Message 89 of 91 (354659)
10-06-2006 3:19 AM
Reply to: Message 84 by Hyroglyphx
10-05-2006 4:10 PM


Re: Similar conclusion
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
We would expect them to be widely divergent and perhaps would be perplexed to see if different cultures, separated by oceans and mountain ranges, agreed on great and important points, especially on points which could not be clearly arrived at by reason.
Except ideas evolve, too.
So, what we have are similar starting points (the root of our ideas is the world around us), and a similar environment -- human psyches. Also, we don't need the evolution of the psychological parasites to be in parallel for each individual. Ideas can move between minds using language.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 84 by Hyroglyphx, posted 10-05-2006 4:10 PM Hyroglyphx has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024