If evolution is true, why would humans have evolved to naturally

>>9025071
self preservation

we have the luxury of being smart enough to seek, construct, and experience meaning, purpose, etc.

there was a period when we were smart enough for these things, but collectively not knowledgeable enough in the world to explain a lot of phenomena, like the seasons, weather, natural disasters, astronomical events, these types of things.

couple those two together and you have a group of beings intelligent enough to seek meaning in things, but unable to find it in a lot of cases in the world. easy to see why gods would be created.

You'll notice as history goes on, gods in religions interfere less and less with day to day life, and now, take the christian god for instance, he's only around as the guy who created everything and sometimes causes kids to survive cancer surgeries. That's a lot harder to disprove than some god is the king of the sea and causes tsunamis on people who anger him

t. armchair everything

>>9025071
Linked to the human ability to make sophisticated abstractions. Believing in things that arent really there is essential for being able to think about anything at all.

>>9025071
The kind of pattern recognition that makes humans superstitious was ultimately more beneficial than harmful, because superstition is really just a bug in our intelligence. It's kind of like p-hacking, if you look at a large enough number of variables, you will find a couple correlations that aren't actually there. And of course if you believe that the gods killed your child because she was struck to death by lightning right after you killed the wrong animal, you aren't gonna be skeptical about it and kill a couple more of the same kind of animal to see if it really was just a fluke.

Religion is the most effective way to unify a people and make it willing to fight a common enemy.

>>9025091
Theres obviously a cultural evolution as well as biological. The biggest religions today have survived because their followers survived.

This >>9025087 is how religion most likely started, but this is >>9025087 how it ended up

>>9025071
agricultural revolution

Because religion is a simple easy answer to what people don't know.

>>9025103
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>>9025071
>humans have evolved to naturally believe
L0Lno fgt pls

>>9025100

> there is obviously

Its not obvious. In fact its wrong. Culture is caused by genes.

This is probably the best answer : >>9025083

>>9025071
because if you don't play along with your neighbors' delusions they'll beat you to death

>>9026174
>Culture is caused by genes.
People with the same genes have very different culture than they had 2000 years ago, moron

>>9026325

No one has the same genes as anyone 2000 years ago.

Because true logical thinking is taxing so shortcuts are developed in the brain, these lead to superstition