Many atheists say man is evolving its way out of religious views, how is man genetically evolving that way?

Question

how has man changed...our knowledge has changed dramatically in the last 1500 years, but still this knowledge must be learned...we aren't born with any new knowledge...

Answer 1

nah i dont think we can evolve out of religion. i dont think that has anything to do with our genetics.

Maybe our brains are evolving though, and we are getting smarter and realising that religion has no proof

Answer 2

Who says this? I've never heard such a claim.

Answer 3

Knowledge is built upon from generation to generation. You add to previous knowledge. If people call that an evolving knowledge, well that is OK. But it is not due to a physical change in our brains that makes us more intelligent. There are still ancient discoveries that modern man has no clue about how they work or how they were built. Religion has always been around and always will be around. Man is created with a need to worship.

Answer 4

Atheists who say that are morons.

Religions are a product of fear. Atheism is a product of security.

The percentage of Atheists and Atheist views in a society is directly related to the degree of confidence that society has in it's ability to control it's own destiny.

As soon as things start to go to sh*t, fear will cause everyone to go back to religion.

We are all motivated by fear.

Answer 5

I don't think anyone says that. Religious views are learned. No one is born with knowledge of religion.

[edit:] What they might mean is that society is moving further away from religion.

Answer 6

I don't care if the entire world becomes non believers.

"As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord" Joshua 24:15

Answer 7

Religion has been replaced by science.

The old testament says "god sent a flood, god sent an earthquake, god sent a drought"

We now can chart and understand climate, we can test the movement of the earth and understand where these things come from.

As there are fewer "mysteries" there will be less blind belief in "gods"

Answer 8

Women having narrower hips... and babies having bigger heads

due to technological development of caesarian sections

in the past... babies with big heads would not be able to survive as much as those with normal heads due to birth problems...

this means that their brain would be bigger and thus more intelligent?

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Answer 9

Social changes and inbreeding among the races are causing changes. There is no evolving to it.

What most people consider knowledge to be today has little to do with anything as far as any human development.

In fact, humans are born with curiosity and develop their own views as they age and by those things that effect them in their environment.

You can teach your child to be an atheist or, that is, have atheist views and still they may become a Christian, or Muslim later in life. And the same is true as to teaching them Christianity or Islam.

Religion, as a whole, in the world is on the rise not declining at all. Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Asia right now.

Answer 10

evolving in our way of thinking due to increased scientific knowledge. not physical changes. lol.  

Answer 11

LM**

To your reponse:"As soon as things start to go to sh*t, fear will cause everyone to go back to religion.We are all motivated by fear."

I am motivated by the truth. When things go to sh*t I don't hide behind "god" or religion, I face the sh*t and deal with it.

Answer 12

a)men don't need to change genetically in order to have a different view.

b)not every atheist is an evolutionist.

c)as an atheist myself i'm the first to admit i don't have the answers, and i certainly know whatever the powers that be aren't written in a book by dudes 4 thousand years ago.

Answer 13

God has never given up on me,I will never give up on God.

Answer 14

Religion will be mutated out by word of mouth and common sense. As generations of people stop using religious mind control techniques at an early age and start educating the their children in the value of science and biological evolution, religion will lose its grasp.

Answer 15

no, there have always been as much atheists in the world as there are now, they just miss that point and think that every single person was religious and believed in god throughout history until the past 50 years or so

Answer 16

Others things can evolve besides organic matter.

I think you will find those people are referring to social evolution, psychological evolution even.

Answer 17

I think as a species, we may gradually utilize the neo cortex of the brain (which controls thought) more and use the sub cortex of the brain (which is the older, primal part of the brain that controls emotions) less.  Religion, at least initially, was a response to fear of the unknown.  Fear is always derived in the sub cortex of the brain.  

Answer 18

The rate and volume of information to which we have access has increased as fast as the population. It is not inherent for the most part. It must be learned, but we live longer and work smarter, so there is a probability an individual can have knowledge at sixty years which was never known a millennium prior, as only few lived to fifty.

If you build a box representing the knowledge one of us will remember in a lifetime, it may be just the same size as before, because so much of our time here is repetitive and basic needs.

But the specialized information we can potentially know, would fill many such boxes.

We are born to a more stable and safe community, one hopes, and provided with shelter clothing and food; love. In London, for example, just a few hundred years ago, four of five children under five years died of preventable causes.

I decline to strip away other's beliefs, as I have nothing to replace them on offer. However, mine have been stripped away, and I have no remedy or recourse. Such nakedness has me shouting, the searing truths, now I have naught other.

Answer 19

Well, in many ways we ARE born with new knowledge, but perhaps not in the way you mean.

Each generation has new information that the previous generation didn't.  This can include technology, science, farming, space travel, psychology, business, economy, and yes, religion.

It may not be the genetic evolution you mention, but more of a cultural evolution.  If I grow up not having the archaic 'need' to have everything explained to me via nonsensical religious stories, then I in turn, pass on to my kids the information they need to understand their world. WITHOUT religion.

See how that works.