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Supernatural and Natural Selection - Religion and Evolutionary Success (Hardcover)
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Supernatural and Natural Selection - Religion and Evolutionary Success (Hardcover)
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A fundamentally new approach to religion that differs from all
other explanations by defining religion not in terms of
unidentifiable beliefs in the supernatural, but by the identifiable
behavior of communicating acceptance of supernatural claims. This
approach distinguishes different forms of religious behavior, from
the ancestor worship, totemism, and shamanism of traditional
societies, to the behavior of prophets that started the world
religions, by their different supernatural claims. Communicating
acceptance of any supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative
social relationships because it communicates a willingness to
accept unskeptically the influence of the speaker in a way similar
to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. This is why
the clearest identifiable effect of religious behavior is the
promotion of cooperative family-like social relationships:
parent/child-like relationships between the individuals making and
accepting the supernatural claims and sibling-like relationships
among coacceptors of those claims. As religious behaviors, and the
increased cooperation they produce, are copied from one generation
to the next, the number of cooperating codescendants has tended to
increase. Thus, religion can be seen as a descendant-leaving
strategy of our ancestors that has been favored by natural
selection and has become a human universal found in all known
cultures.
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