On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:08:36 GMT, arslarga at mediaone.net wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 18:38:32 GMT, malcolm at pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm
>McMahon) wrote:
>>>It appears thet the human brain comes hardwired to aquire religious
>>belief in much the same way it's hardwired to aquire language. I suspect
>>that it's evolved as a necessary adjunct of high inteligence to protect
>>us from knowledge of mortality.
>>Once you get used to making those leaps of faith, leaps of logic get
>easier and easier, don't they?
>>You went from an assertion that "religious" people and "atheists"
>(however you are defining them) live longer than "people without
>beliefs"
Well, no, not an assertion, merely a speculation.
> (however you are defining them -- btw the whole thing sounds
>like a crock to me) and jump to the "hardwiring" of the brain to
>accept religion? And then jump to a protective mechanism regarding
>mortality?
>
I can see how this sounds like an irrelvant jump but it's connected to
the above speculation. I'm wondering if atheism actually fills that
"biological" drive towards religious belief, albeit it replaces God with
Occam's Razor. It seems like the same kind of certainty in areas where I
believe no rational certainty can exist.
>It's fascinating to have this look into your demons, but you do
>realize that this is only about you, don't you?
>
Isn't everything anyone posts around here about themselves?
