Comment by tortasaur
4 days ago
By that logic, you may as well say evolution led to TikTok. "Religion taps into human psychology" seems more accurate.
4 days ago
By that logic, you may as well say evolution led to TikTok. "Religion taps into human psychology" seems more accurate.
But what does that rephrasing change about the overall argument?
The former phrasing has a sense of inevitability to it, for one. It masks the fact that people created systems to exploit weaknesses in human psychology. Evolution led to a bias toward unsubstantiated pattern recognition and simple explanations for complex systems, not organized religion.
The inevitability (or not) is not what I wanted to focus on.
The point was that religion has become a part of our brain. How this happened (evolution, perhaps by accident), was not the important bit.
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