[ExI] Theological arguments

[John Clark]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>  I tend to bypass theology for biology,particularly evolutionary
> psychology and reply to theology questions
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> with the meta question, "Why do humans have religions at all?"
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​The world is a dangerous place so there would be an
evolutionary
​ advantage for children to believe what their parents tell them about it.
Most people don't have hallucinations but some do, and those that do will
tell their children about it and they will accept it as a fact about the
world as uncritically as the fact that it's dangerous to swim in that river
because of the crocodiles. And when they grow up they will tell their
children the same thing even if they have not had the hallucination​
themselves. So the grandchildren will also believe that the
hallucination
​ explains something important about the world, it must be true because
mommy and daddy told me it's true. ​And so it goes.

 John K Clark


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