I’m not completely familiar with the God gene theory but from what I have read it makes some sense – IF you think believing in God will up your chances of reproducing.
Are societies with Gods more likely to survive than ones without Gods?
Any set of genes that can successfully work together in such a way as to get a better chance to be made copies of (that’s us – just machines to make gene copies) they’ll obviously be preserved in the genome and spread in the population.
My gut feeling is that (A) there is no single god gene (so unfortunately it can’t be knocked out of the genome so in essence there would be a set (B) these genes probably didn’t evolve to foster a God but rather to do something more practical. For example, humans are curious – which is good and we can see the benefits that go along with curiosity. But humans are also lazy – which is also good (in moderation) it would be of no use to be so curious as to starve to death screwing around trying to find an answer – I mean there’s animals to be killed and eaten, why worry over why things tickle. So some laziness is good.
Now if we combine curiosity with laziness we get Christianity
But really, has anyone else read up on the God Gene Theory?
Are societies with Gods more likely to survive than ones without Gods?
Any set of genes that can successfully work together in such a way as to get a better chance to be made copies of (that’s us – just machines to make gene copies) they’ll obviously be preserved in the genome and spread in the population.
My gut feeling is that (A) there is no single god gene (so unfortunately it can’t be knocked out of the genome so in essence there would be a set (B) these genes probably didn’t evolve to foster a God but rather to do something more practical. For example, humans are curious – which is good and we can see the benefits that go along with curiosity. But humans are also lazy – which is also good (in moderation) it would be of no use to be so curious as to starve to death screwing around trying to find an answer – I mean there’s animals to be killed and eaten, why worry over why things tickle. So some laziness is good.
Now if we combine curiosity with laziness we get Christianity
But really, has anyone else read up on the God Gene Theory?