Message from @Eric
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either way lol
i think very strong beliefs of u-understood knowledge is basically religion, which predates humans.......to answer your question....
*un-
misunderstood?
un-understood
not understood
gotcha
I don't think you can say religion exists if people can't communicate that religion to each other, and that would apply to animals
The bids know nothing of precipitation, evaporation, boiling tempature......
and religion does require worship
*birds
there's a difference between religion and superstition
only that rain = worms
but do the birds actively worship a rain god in hopes he will grant them a blessing?
do the birds not pray for rain?
yes but they don't "think" about that cause and effect, their instincts just bring them in the direction of the worms because they evolved to doso
i suspect they perfom 'rituals' so that they find the lands in which there is rain....
evidence?
i think our brains are too big. stuff starts to form on it's own. pattern recognition engine never stops to work. that's why so many people are susceptible to conspiracies and religion.
I think you could definitely say that there's an adaptive reason for that
yeah beliefs and religion are not genetic
it would be a behavioral adaptation
fair enough eric.......but look at any animal........what they thrive for (an ideal) & the repeating (sorry should be better word).....actions they do....
I don't know if you could even say that animals "thrive"
a lot of what drives animals to do what they do is instinct
butterflies go to S. America........is it instinct, or religion?
just like we can't control vitamin D forming in our skin, we can't control patterns forming in our brains
instinct
why?
its like salmon spawning season
whats the difference?
I mean I love my dog, but my dog only loves me in so far as I can provide it food and shelter. That's instinct
religion requires the ability to abstract
There is a fat at the end of the river which the salmon cannot exlain, only that he knows he must go there
yeah thats instinct
you may not understand chuch but you know you should show up on sundays?
*god
Religion would be if the salmon actually had an inner monologue where it said that the end of the river is the path to righteousness
there is no evidence one way or the other
well we cant study thought