there are no short answers to your "evolution of religion" question
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>....yet u dont realize that adults with no education are allowed into university becos a mature mind beats an educated young mind every time.
Pithy response, I graduated with BS in Computer Science from East Carolina University at the age of 16. Then again the American education system sucks royally. I have gone on to obtain other degrees and certifications and have spent a great deal of time in biological laboratories as a technician and technology advisor. I know what scientists want in technology and a lot of them send me their prereviewed articles
>>>>>>>>>>>But u think that u r incredibly smart.
No, I don'tr think I am incredibly smart, as a matter of fact the only thing you can call me is an incredibly well educated mockery of education.
>>>>>>>>>>>answer this one. if evolution ie GTE is true and man has evolved from apes.
The theory is a construct designed around the requirements that empirical evidence and data collected in the laboratory be present as the pillars of the model. There is an incredible amount of evidence in those pillars; hard facts, millions of specimens, billions of bones, trillions of cells and cultures. You can see these any time you want, just ask a scientist, they'll show you.
>>>>>>>>>>why has man evolved the need to invent religion?
What an incredibly simply complex question you have there. Short answer social communicative contact begets comparison and unification. In order to have social communicability there must be a communication device, such as an iPhone or vocal folds, which only primates posses. (I met this chimp once that was hooked on video games, could whistle super mario brothers) as the vocal system developed to our current range and use we as a species had to learn what exactly to do with a larynx with a complex vocal fold system, it made a lot of different noises. Early humans could make their voice sound like a lot of different things, but carrying on a conversation was difficult as the only language would be that of mimicry.
Mimicry developed into language, and looking at the evolution of writing, natural mimicry develops into communicative ideals. "Tree Grow Food YUMYUM." said the snake. Children learn language by mimic of those around them, the reason children say something like "mama" or "papa" is because they hear it so many times from people saying "Come on, say "DADA" " Language is the intelligent way of Monkey See Monkey Do theology. After we learned to remember each others mimics, a language can be compiled, and thus proper communication is born. After all you can't know what a god is till you tell somebody what it is, and they understand the concept definable by their own terms.
Now that real language and communication is out the way, we learned to deal with those base instincts driving these urges we have. Humans react the same way to stimuli the same way animals do, smack a tiger upside the head it's gonna smack you and scratch behind his ears and he'll purr, try this with a human and you will get the same reactions. We call these action/ reactions emotion and feelings. We can only truly define these emotions within ourselves as no two people will react within the same emotional type the same, but we can mimic these emotions communicatively and can develop socially acceptable reactions based on what collectively is best for the community. Such as "what is the best vocal and communicative reaction to being afraid of eggs?" either A Scream "SHIT I HATE EGGS!!!!" or B Crush every egg in site, hunt down chickens and crush their skulls. Which is more beneficial to your community?
(I bet you chose b, you sadist)
Religion has developed from two primary lines, the need to channel emotional energy in a community and the need to standardize language. As more and more communicative humans came into contact with each other, the more complex communication became *(all Humans once spoke the same language, but one day, after a really riotous party, nobody spoke the same language, blowing 30,000 years of hard work). Early human communal social groups were small, no larger than 20 or 30 individuals, and primarily grazed long stretches of area in a migratory pattern. It wasn't till humans started cultivating crops and domestication of animals 11,000 years ago did the need for organizing belief systems became necessary, and thus the development of organized religion, which everybody in the new larger community adhered to.
This organizing and localizing of beliefs developed by the process of addition and subtractions. Many tribes believed many things, like that tribe that believed that at night, the fireflies carry the soul of your left earlobe through the realm of gods, and their gods punished you by making you eat gerbils in reverse. Now of course the gerbil shortage of 7852 BC eliminated this ritual, but some still occasionally practice eating gerbils in reverse in deference to their god. Eventually you end up with a lots of imaginary excuses for why everything you can think of happens and make these excuses attributable to a singular group, the gods, the most discriminated minority on earth, everybody blames them for everything.
Around 7000-5000 BC written language popped up (in three different locations at once) and that is where your religious system comes into to play. and the rest is history, look it up your own damn self.
Now to concluded all this. The more we socialize with others on their level the more we become accepting of their definitions, religion is a communal thing, and a human thing and an emotionally human thing, as we give a great deal of our emotional energy to our religions or our work. It doesn't hurt that religions financially benefit by being the forced center of attention.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>what was the survival benefit to this?
Which is gonna survive.
1 lion vs 1 human with a chopstick
or
50 lions vs 50 humans with chopsticks in a ecclesiastical frenzy?
this is the essence of religion. communal support through faith-filled emotional unification.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>once u give me your 'just so' answer i will then ask you why u fight against natural evolution?
I don't fight against it, I completely understand the ins and outs of the theory and fully recognize the current life on earth as a complex evolutionary product.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>If we evolved this way it was natures way & for a reason.
If we evolved this way it was natures way.... there is not rhyme nor reason behind it all, it just is.
Yours
Bubba D Aardvark
3rd Earl of Uranus
