The Origination of Religion, how it came about?

• marcteng

  27 Jun 09, 23:06

  Primitive ancient people that time were living in caves, hills and mountains, they do not know that natural phenomena like lighting, thunders, earthquakes, floods etc are not acts of god. their thinking was hunting, eating, protecting their tribes and procreation. so they begun to think that there must be a god, if not who are creating all these natural diasters. so they begun praying to Sun, Moon, rivers, sky because to seek their protection and create less disasters. they thought that by praying and worshipping, the Sun/moon god will be appeased and will bless their tribe. as people evolved and the worshipping progressed, some even took it to sacrifising animals and later humans to appease the god. Here the concept of god was based on fear, as they are unable to understand these are not acts of god, but natural phenomenon.
• Trump_Card

  30 Jun 09, 14:54

  The god hypothesis is made to answer the uncertainties people faced in life... the fear of becoming nothingness in death... It's simply a desperate fight against mortality and finiteness

  Religion is pretty compatible with the idea of wanting to live after you "die"

• SingaporeTyrannosaur

  9 Jul 09, 20:14

  I don't think you are answering the question.

  What evolutionary advantage does religion afford the human species that it has endured to our modern age and is so entwined with our history? Any idea that did not befit survival would have been weeded out very quickly as it's followers would have quickly died out.