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>From: Philip Jonkers <P.A.E.Jonkers@phys.rug.nl>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along
>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:55:56 +0200 (CEST)
>
>Scott:
> > There could be an innate or heritable underbelly to the generation of
> > religious belief, whether adaptive or non-adaptive. OTOH, there might
> > not be
> > such an innate bias. I guess it depends on whether there's a "God
> > module" or
> > not.
>
>Hi Scott,
>
>Interesting of you bringing that up. It seems that there is
>such a thing of, what you refer to as a, `God module'. I guess
>it corresponds to an area in the pre-frontal cortex. I posted
>a mail ages ago, called: `This is your brain on God' which
>was about some Canadian scientist who invented a brain-machine
>that could arouse religious/spiritual experiences, depending
>on the subject's religous commitment of course.
>Given the fact that the ability to become religious is
>innate, one may ask:
>What are the evolutionary forces that drove the development
>of such a mental module?
>A clue that springs to mind is that religious communities may
>have had a survival benefit over not so religious communities
>through ensuring social coherence within the group.
>An evolutionary pressure may then have favored the more religious
>type of brain...
>
>Also religous thinking affects just about everybody, including
>atheist. Think of the universally applied language, terms
>such as spirituality, eternity, soul, purpose/ goal of life
>hold sway everywhere. Even evolutionary psychologists are
>for spreading the `gospel' of their scientific
>beliefs in such a fanatical religious kind of way.
>
>
The Standard Social Science Model is a tool of the devil.
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