07.16.10
Dawkins’ bogus religion theory
Dawkins, re: why humans have religion
For an hour, Dawkins explained his theories about the evolutionary advantages and disadvantages of belief in a deity.
He started the evening with a question: “Religion. What is it good for?”
Dawkins quickly ran through three possible explanations for religion’s existence: wish fulfillment; the social functionalist theory that religion sustains social order; and the intellectualism argument that religion attempts to answer questions. While these ideas are interesting, he said, they do not explain why religion exists.
Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Richard Dawkins speaks to Fairbanks audience about why humans have religion
The Dawkins style explanation is totally false, and deserves to be resisted by all parties, including religionists. We can see from the Axial Age that emergent religion is connected to emergent civilization, and that the two blend together, as they must have in the earliest stages of human evolution.
Dawkins’ bogus religion theory said,
July 21, 2010 at 1:46 pm
[...] Dawkins’ bogus religion theory The Dawkins style explanation is totally false, and deserves to be resisted by all parties, including religionists. We can see from the Axial Age that emergent religion is connected to emergent civilization, and that the two blend together, as they must have in the earliest stages of human evolution. [...]