Thursday, September 8, 2011

I disagree the brain evolved to make us believers…

…maybe the mind evolved to make us believers from religious narratives passed on from one generation to the next just like alcoholism and drug addiction.   This is information put into the brain as opposed to it being inherently natural to the brain.   If you are particularly religious and give birth to a blind and deaf child, is that child naturally religious?   Helen Keller was a little hellion until she was taught to behave.    

If the child cannot see his or her parents, how does it’s appearance develop?   Genetics?  They are unable to split off one or the other of the parents.