Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests

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Quote:Under most scenarios,

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Under most scenarios, "believers in the unreal" went extinct. But when Dow included the assumption that non-believers would be attracted to religious people because of some clear, but arbitrary, signal, religion flourished.

If this turns out to be true, people are going to have a much harder time arguing against my stance on moderate religion.

 

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Interesting. It seems to me

Interesting. It seems to me that computer logic is encroaching on theistic ideas and eroding them by showing that they are false, demonstrating how theistic concepts could have come to life. This reminds me of the Technological Singularity. I'll explain a bit; the singularity is when artificial intelligence overtakes or becomes equal to human intelligence. I expect when (if?) this happens and the AI can argue points with humans, they will be able to deductively prove that peoples ideas of gods, the supernatural, superstitions and the like are false, then going on to show how exactly they are false. Essentially, they will be like mass produced 'deluded gods'.

Bring on the deluded god army, I say.


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GOOGLE is 100% GOD ,

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Quote:However, religion only

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However, religion only takes hold if non-believers help believers out

Does helping them out of their religion count?

Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible

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