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Religion will persist until humans will become smarter on average, meaning until humans will have bigger brain on average. But bigger brain may happen only if w
by Yizahi 9y ago
Religion will persist until humans will become smarter on average, meaning until humans will have bigger brain on average. But bigger brain may happen only if we solve how to birth babies with bigger heads or how to boost brain and head size after birth. Both requires significant medical and other breakthroughs.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoBirth weights do seem to be going up, possible thanks to cesarian sections.
- Yizahi 9y agoYes, this gives me hope in our long term perspective.
- humanrebar 9y ago> Religion will persist until humans will become smarter on average How do you explain theists with high IQs then?
- Yizahi 9y agoFirst of all IQ is commonly known to be a flawed metric, but more or less acceptable for many uses. Second - they are either outliers statistically or not really high IQ in the area of scientific methodology (which is incompatible with basic religion). People can know a lot and believe blindly in god-entity, people can do very hard calculus and believe. People can't do real scientific research about universe and blindly believe. They may use vague terminology about god-entity specifically because it is a clever concept that can't ever be disproven but really it is just a 3rd rate issue in large scale of things. Anyone claiming to be a theist and a scientist most likely never bothered to think about his "theism" much.