Re: Evolution of pro-social religions

2015-01-05 Thread zibblequibble
On Sunday, January 4, 2015 2:22:06 AM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: Why would you recommend others read something you have not? You don't see that as being just a little strange? I don't do that that I can remember. I doubt I would ever bother. But what exactly 'reading' involves and how much

Re: Evolution of pro-social religions

2015-01-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I know that the mere notion of human sacrifices as the cornerstone of every society inspire horror to modern men and they donĀ“t dare to consider it. And yet the conclusion is unescapable. That explain a lot about the modernity. If you dismiss organizeed religion and his altar of sacrifices, then

Re: Evolution of pro-social religions

2015-01-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
There are previous evolutionary studies of religion leaded by David Sloan Wilson. I think that they only scratch the surface. But it is a good start. I wrote in this group about the need of human sacrifices to create an stable society if natural selection and game theory are accepted as

Re: Evolution of pro-social religions

2015-01-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Jan 2015, at 02:14, zibblequib...@gmail.com wrote: In the first instance I'm posting this recently accepted paper (link is to full paper), for Bruno and Brent reference a recent discussion between them about the part of large scale religion in the emergence of ever-more complex

Evolution of pro-social religions

2015-01-03 Thread zibblequibble
In the first instance I'm posting this recently accepted paper (link is to full paper), for Bruno and Brent reference a recent discussion between them about the part of large scale religion in the emergence of ever-more complex society. Brent has me on ignore...I'm not sure about

Re: Evolution of pro-social religions

2015-01-03 Thread Kim Jones
Why would you recommend others read something you have not? You don't see that as being just a little strange? Anyway I read the paper. The authors' conclusion? That pro-social religion (which I understand to mean institutionalised religion is probably here to stay. They kind of just