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Description:A fundamentally new approach to religion that differs from all other explanations by defining religion not in terms of unidentifiable beliefs in the supernatural, but by the identifiable behavior of communicating acceptance of supernatural claims. This approach distinguishes different forms of religious behavior, from the ancestor worship, totemism, and shamanism of traditional societies, to the behavior of prophets that started the world religions, by their different supernatural claims. Communicating acceptance of any supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships because it communicates a willingness to accept unskeptically the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child s acceptance of the influence of a parent. This is why the clearest identifiable effect of religious behavior is the promotion of cooperative family-like social relationships: parent/child-like relationships between the individuals making and accepting the supernatural claims and sibling-like relationships among coacceptors of those claims. As religious behaviors, and the increased cooperation they produce, are copied from one generation to the next, the number of cooperating codescendants has tended to increase. Thus, religion can be seen as a descendant-leaving strategy of our ancestors that has been favored by natural selection and has become a human universal found in all known cultures.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success. To get started finding Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A fundamentally new approach to religion that differs from all other explanations by defining religion not in terms of unidentifiable beliefs in the supernatural, but by the identifiable behavior of communicating acceptance of supernatural claims. This approach distinguishes different forms of religious behavior, from the ancestor worship, totemism, and shamanism of traditional societies, to the behavior of prophets that started the world religions, by their different supernatural claims. Communicating acceptance of any supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships because it communicates a willingness to accept unskeptically the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child s acceptance of the influence of a parent. This is why the clearest identifiable effect of religious behavior is the promotion of cooperative family-like social relationships: parent/child-like relationships between the individuals making and accepting the supernatural claims and sibling-like relationships among coacceptors of those claims. As religious behaviors, and the increased cooperation they produce, are copied from one generation to the next, the number of cooperating codescendants has tended to increase. Thus, religion can be seen as a descendant-leaving strategy of our ancestors that has been favored by natural selection and has become a human universal found in all known cultures.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success. To get started finding Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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