Comments on: Supernatural selection

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:25:25 +0000

Dow appears half right. They are hard headed. It’s just that his “realists” are not very much interested in reality. So he believes that for millenia a small core of people who think like modern empiricists have nobly kept the majority of human “dreamers” alive and safe? Dream on.

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By: Xion

Xion — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:27:48 +0000

“Dow says it’s the non-believers’ hard-headed realism – and their decision to look out for the dreamers – that keeps the dreamers alive.”

What a crock! Since evolution has been around for just over a century, who took care of whom prior to this?

Who built hospitals and educated scientists prior to Darwin? Who motivated western civilization to advance?

Evolution is survival of the fittest, whereas religion helps the unfit to survive. In this sense, religion has always been a spoiler of the supposed natural order of killing off the weak.

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By: Flaming Icarus

Flaming Icarus — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:59:38 +0000

…religion can create a sense of solidarity and cooperation.

Well, yes. Surely, from an anthropological and sociological perspective, the sense of community, belonging and social responsibility that is engendered through religious practise cannot be overlooked as reasons for continued religious prevalence.

In Dow’s own words, believing in the existence of the unseen “makes no sense from an common evolutionary point of view” because anyone who is “out of touch with reality should be eliminated by natural selection.”

In light of the socio- anthropological benefits of religious belief, it probably wouldn’t matter what invisibles are believed, as long as the invisibles affirm community, belonging and social responsibilities. Which, in turn, assist in the ongoing survival of the community.

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By: adios

adios — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:41:31 +0000

Alisa–LOL. Brilliant parody.

C’mon, Dow and Sosis actually believe that? That makes it even more amusing (Sorry didn’t mean to use the B word). Some people are hardwired to hold to their opinions at all costs.

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By: Make it Man

Make it Man — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:35:46 +0000

Meanwhile they dance around the Elephant in the room.

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By: krm

krm — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:25:53 +0000

Secular university folk – the most intolerant people in the world regarding beliefs they disdain – are laughable in any assertion that people are hardwired to respect other beliefs. It also goes contrary to all of human history.

So much for their claim to be rational and scientific.

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