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The Origin of Religions, From a
Distinctly Darwinian View
December 24, 2002
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Dr. David Sloan Wilson of
Binghamton University, a renowned
evolutionary biologist, argues that
the religious impulse evolved early
in hominid history because it helped
make groups of humans comparatively
more cohesive, more cooperative and
more fraternal, and thus able to
present a formidable…
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/24/science/social/24CONV.html
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, joseph (yes) wrote:
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> The Origin of Religions, From a
> Distinctly Darwinian View
> December 24, 2002
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Yet another fine example of an ape trying to look
at "religion" without having direct experience of any
and more or less floating on the "current of memetics'.
Religion has never been about "selections" or "groups".
Selection is a genetically driven mechanism of
horizontal (flat) reproduction.
Religion is "vertical" in essence, and this person
possesses no "verticalness". His 'article" is
a fashionable shifting about of lexical categories.
Flat, illiterate language.
This kind of "tackling" of religious matter is akin
to religious brainwashing.