In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming an evolved human trait, i.e. an adaptive answer to the conditions of living and surviving that prevailed among our prehistoric ancestors. This aim is pursued by a team of expert authors from a range of disciplines. Their contributions examine the relevant physiological, emotional, cognitive and social processes. The resulting understanding of the functional interplay of these processes gives valuable insights into the biological roots and benefits of religion.
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Aus den Rezensionen: “... Das Buch mit ... Beiträgen aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen ... versucht ... erste Antworte zu geben. ... sind die in diesen Beiträgen gegebenen ersten Antworten sehr instruktiv und legen eine positive Beantwortung … erst einmal nahe. Wie es der Klappentext formuliert, geben die verschiedenen analysierten Prozesse und ihr Zusammenwirken einen fundierten Einblick ... bieten die lesenswerten Beiträge ... Stoff zum intensiven eigenen Nachdenken und zu einer notwendigen Diskussion auf einer breiten gesellschaftlichen Basis ...“ (PD. Dr. Stefan Schneckenburger, in: evo-magazin.de, February/2011)
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In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming an evolved human trait, i.e. an adaptive answer to the conditions of living and surviving that prevailed among our prehistoric ancestors. This aim is pursued by a team of expert authors from a range of disciplines. Their contributions examine the relevant physiological, emotional, cognitive and social processes. The resulting understanding of the functional interplay of these processes gives valuable insights into the biological roots and benefits of religion.
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This books is written based on the unproved assertion thata the Human Genome is the product of evolution and that therefore biology is the cause and determinant of human behavior and religion. This crossover of biology into human behavior is scientifically invalid and even forbidden by sound scientific method. A physical science, for instance, like Quantum Mechanics cannot explain life( as Erwin Schrodinger recognized in his famous lectures in Dublin in 1943), and a biological science cannot explain that which is distinctly human in Homo Sapiens.
There is no empirical evidence that human reason and human behavior, much less religion, is the work of evolutionary biology. That etiology is far more complicated than can be explained by biological engines. I offer three premises based on human embryology, demonstrating a far richer, far more scientific and far more tenable etiology for human behavior and religion. This book, instead of dealing with the specifities of human embryonic life, deals only with biological generalities, that miss completely the real roots of human behavor, culture and religion. The principles are false, the scientific method is outdated and the conclusions repeat with unrelenring regularity that Homo Sapiens is an evolutionary automaton. This work is a piece of evolutionary fiction based, not on Darwin's major work, "On the Origin of Species", but on his fears and horror at the conclusions he had come to in "The Descent of Man".
My three premises are these, drawn from an intimate and detailed study of the human embryo. 1) A human person is the terminus ad quem of human concepion and the terminus a quo from which all human embryonic life develops. 2) Human gestation is a human subject in a state of somatic organizational and developmental repose, with an integrating principle distinct and separate from that of the mother. 3) The integrating priniple of hujman embryonic life is a human person in the unfolding of its innate human potential, gradually experiencing, expressing and revealing its uniquely human powers.
In the light of these premises, which can be demonstrated from the specifics of human embryonic life, the assertion of this book that human behavior, human reason, ethics and religion are are the products of evolution is rendered obsolete.
Father Clifford Stevens
Boys Town, Nebraska
There is no empirical evidence that human reason and human behavior, much less religion, is the work of evolutionary biology. That etiology is far more complicated than can be explained by biological engines. I offer three premises based on human embryology, demonstrating a far richer, far more scientific and far more tenable etiology for human behavior and religion. This book, instead of dealing with the specifities of human embryonic life, deals only with biological generalities, that miss completely the real roots of human behavor, culture and religion. The principles are false, the scientific method is outdated and the conclusions repeat with unrelenring regularity that Homo Sapiens is an evolutionary automaton. This work is a piece of evolutionary fiction based, not on Darwin's major work, "On the Origin of Species", but on his fears and horror at the conclusions he had come to in "The Descent of Man".
My three premises are these, drawn from an intimate and detailed study of the human embryo. 1) A human person is the terminus ad quem of human concepion and the terminus a quo from which all human embryonic life develops. 2) Human gestation is a human subject in a state of somatic organizational and developmental repose, with an integrating principle distinct and separate from that of the mother. 3) The integrating priniple of hujman embryonic life is a human person in the unfolding of its innate human potential, gradually experiencing, expressing and revealing its uniquely human powers.
In the light of these premises, which can be demonstrated from the specifics of human embryonic life, the assertion of this book that human behavior, human reason, ethics and religion are are the products of evolution is rendered obsolete.
Father Clifford Stevens
Boys Town, Nebraska
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This book is written, based on the unproved assertion that the Human Genome is athe product of evolution and that therefore evolutionary biology is the cause and determinant of human behavior, culture and religion. This crossover of biology to human behavior is scientifically invalid and even forbidden by sound scientific method. A physical science, for instance, like Quantum Mechanics, cannot explain life, and a biological science cannot explain that which is distinctly human in Homo Sapiens.
There is no empirical evidence that human reason and behavior, much less religion, is the work of evolutionary biology. Religion is a cosmological question, and arises from the reponse of the human intellect to the Cosmos, with its immensity, awesomeness and amazing complexity.
I offer three premises, based on the study of the human embryo, and not on the biological life of non-human mammalian species, demonstrating that the present state of evolutionary science regarding human behavior and religion is pre-mature, untenable and erroneous. This book, by eminent evolutinary scientists, instead of dealing with the specifities of human embryonic life, deals only with biological generalities having nothing to do with the biology of Homo Sapiens. The principles are falsle, the scientific method outdated and the conclusions repeat with unrelenting regularity that Homo Sapiens is an evolutionary automaton. This work is a piece of evolutionary fiction based, not on Darwin's major work, "The Origin of Species", but on his fears and horror at the conclusions he had come to in "The Descent of Man".
My three premises are these: 1) A human person is the terminus ad quem of human conception and the terminus a quo from which all human embryonic life develops. 2) Human gestation is a human subject in a state of somatic organizational and developmental repose, with an integrating principle distinct and separate from the body of the mother. 3) The integrating principle of human embryonic life is a human person in the unfolding of its innate human potential, gradually experiencing, expressing and revealing its uniquely human powers.
In the light of these premises, which can be demonstrated from the specifics of human embryonic life, the assertions in this book that human behavior, reason, ethics and religion are the products of the evolutionary powers of non-human mammalian species are rendered obsolete.
Father Clifford Stevens
Boys Town, Nebraska
There is no empirical evidence that human reason and behavior, much less religion, is the work of evolutionary biology. Religion is a cosmological question, and arises from the reponse of the human intellect to the Cosmos, with its immensity, awesomeness and amazing complexity.
I offer three premises, based on the study of the human embryo, and not on the biological life of non-human mammalian species, demonstrating that the present state of evolutionary science regarding human behavior and religion is pre-mature, untenable and erroneous. This book, by eminent evolutinary scientists, instead of dealing with the specifities of human embryonic life, deals only with biological generalities having nothing to do with the biology of Homo Sapiens. The principles are falsle, the scientific method outdated and the conclusions repeat with unrelenting regularity that Homo Sapiens is an evolutionary automaton. This work is a piece of evolutionary fiction based, not on Darwin's major work, "The Origin of Species", but on his fears and horror at the conclusions he had come to in "The Descent of Man".
My three premises are these: 1) A human person is the terminus ad quem of human conception and the terminus a quo from which all human embryonic life develops. 2) Human gestation is a human subject in a state of somatic organizational and developmental repose, with an integrating principle distinct and separate from the body of the mother. 3) The integrating principle of human embryonic life is a human person in the unfolding of its innate human potential, gradually experiencing, expressing and revealing its uniquely human powers.
In the light of these premises, which can be demonstrated from the specifics of human embryonic life, the assertions in this book that human behavior, reason, ethics and religion are the products of the evolutionary powers of non-human mammalian species are rendered obsolete.
Father Clifford Stevens
Boys Town, Nebraska
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