tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425913358406411941.post8231119284067000351..comments2023-07-11T10:20:40.454+01:00Comments on Tessera: Religion On My MindTKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02054609141955914429noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425913358406411941.post-46918120770691052762009-09-14T09:17:38.310+01:002009-09-14T09:17:38.310+01:00Excellent post!Excellent post!Jobsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425913358406411941.post-48455519070438422632009-09-10T11:36:14.945+01:002009-09-10T11:36:14.945+01:00You're right that there is a cultural element,...You're right that there is a cultural element, the same way there is with belief in ghosts, patterns of addiction and so on. Nature and nurture always interact but cultural elements also need the brain to have evolved in a certain way to create the culture in the first place and then to buy into it. <br /><br />Any kind of In Group behaviour can have survival benefits, the question is why has religion been such a persistent one. Perhaps because by adding a supernatural element it can outlast individuals, however influential a leader or thinker they are.<br /><br />Like most things we do, there are always a combination of factors both within cultures and within individuals.TKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02054609141955914429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425913358406411941.post-56292054294837279312009-09-10T08:11:04.820+01:002009-09-10T08:11:04.820+01:00I guess that such newspaper articles are, in the e...I guess that such newspaper articles are, in the end, just more data about how tenacious religious thinking is in the Homo Sapiens. Though, I think that religion is a bit more than a spandrel - rather an interesting combination of cognitive by-product plus cultural group-adaptation (that may well have had its adaptive value compromised in modern societies). That would help to make sense of the great differences in religiosity between cultures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com