01.27.08
The evolution of religion
at The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, edited by Joseph Bulbulia et al.
This volume at least asks a good set of questions about the adaptationist scenarios attempting to fix religion into the Darwin paradigm. But none of it will work, as a number of authors suspect. I can think of no approach more cockeyed and wrong-headed than the selectionist obsession applied to religion. It just didn’t work that way.
Even a cursory glance at the phenomenon of the Axial Age suggests just how far off Darwinists are in their analyses, which are really ostrich behavior concealed behind ‘reseach’ gestures.
It is painful to observe this phenomenon of an entire research tradition frozen in a series of errors, totally incapable of even looking at the real data of the history of religion.