Today you can finish your work on the reading and then address these questions about the religious impulse in humans - after all, 85% of people practice a religion.
The
Religious Impulse?
1. Explain the evolution
of religion. Define your terms as you
use them, e.g. “religion”.
2. Explain why the features of religion that makes it such a powerful force in human history.
3. Does practicing a religion develop an advantage from a Darwinian standpoint (i.e. an advantage in competition for resources, selective advantage, survival of the fittest)?
4. How is religion an adaptation to circumstances (think Darwinism again)?
5. Explain an example of looking at the natural history of a religion.
2. Explain why the features of religion that makes it such a powerful force in human history.
3. Does practicing a religion develop an advantage from a Darwinian standpoint (i.e. an advantage in competition for resources, selective advantage, survival of the fittest)?
4. How is religion an adaptation to circumstances (think Darwinism again)?
5. Explain an example of looking at the natural history of a religion.
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