The most interesting and somewhat topic relevant portion of this discussion is that of why belief systems that support trust in leadership, authority and beliefs that support general social cohesion are likely to be strongly selected in evolutionary terms.
If you are likely to go against the leader and the rest of the group, tribe, society even if you are right, you are less likely to survive. So it is probably very strongly selected not to oppose either the group or the leader of the group unless you want to end up dead, or at least without support from the group. This is the same issue that LENR and other fringe topics are faced with. John On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:08 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com>wrote: > > Perhaps someone might want to offer a location to which this topic could >> be pursued. >> > > Vortex-B? Southern Poverty Law Center? ;) > > Eric > >
