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Old 12-17-2011, 06:10 AM   #49 (permalink)
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Can anyone explain why humans would be hard-wired to believe in a god? Why is that necessary? It doesn't seem like such a trait would help us survive in any way - so how would it make it through natural selection? But I suppose that isn't a valid point if it is hard-wired in our minds and isn't in our genes. Still, if we are just creatures whose main purpose in life is to survive, why would we be equipped with such a feature?
Maybe it's essential to our survival, to keep us from ending the pointlessness when we realize that we're born, we reproduce, we die, and that's all there is to it.
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