My OperaLegal philosophy:Evolution and Religion
Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:38:58 PM
Evolution supports religion.
How evolution and religion join forces to maintain the human species.
For many thousand years evolution has supported the growth of religion. This may seem a paradox since religious books do not match Darwin’s theories very well. But evolution nevertheless strongly supports religion. Furthermore, religion and sexuality have always had a troublesome coexistence. But changes are to be expected. Let me put together some simple facts. These facts can be found in your daily newspaper and need no specific references. Nevertheless they make it possible for me to give a certain forecast for the next centuries:
Sexuality has now reached its all-time high. In our days it will culminate, and from now on it will lose its influence. Religion, on the other hand, is on the march forward. This is because we right now are about to make the biggest experiment in the entire history of mankind: From now on the success of the human species is no longer dependant on sex. During the one (or perhaps two) million years of human history up until now the statistical fact has been that much sex results in many children and little sex equals fewer children. People equipped with a great sexual desire had many children; children who therefore in the next generation were also equipped with a strong sexual appetite. Then these children grew old and had their own children with a great sexual desire and so on and so on ..... People with a lesser sexual desire made it less of a priority to spread their genes to future generations; these people gave other activities higher priority than sex. This resulted in fewer children. Thereby the overall sexual desire has increased for every generation all the way through the history of mankind and it is now culminating in a true deluge. What this has lead to, can be seen every day on the internet, on TV and in popular magazines. They are flooded with sex. But the problem from the evolution’s point of view is this: All this constant sexual activity everywhere does not result in as many children as the evolutionary history would make us expect, because the most sexually active among us are usually very aware of things like contraception and abortion.
This phenomenon will lead to the fact that now in our days the sexual desire culminates. This happens now because for the first time in history the human being does not need to have sex in order to have children. This will obviously affect the view of sex: Sex will no longer be so important, and it will no longer pose any threat to religion. That someone has sex will not be any more interesting than someone playing scrabble or tennis. No longer will sex be shocking news for journalists. For sex is no longer an existential activity for humanity. It may be a fun and exciting activity that one can enjoy, similar to other activities you may engage in. Thus, religion will rather concentrate on the fight against this gang of four; deadly sins like abortion, euthanasia, contraception and laziness, also here with the full support of evolution.
From now on the people, who bring children into this world, will be the people who have faith in life, regardless of the level or direction of their sexual desire. A man does not need to release sperm more than once, preferably while he is still young and healthy. This does not take that much sexual desire. The sperm can then be frozen so that his female partner(s) may be with children at a time when it suits them. If a woman does not want to walk around pregnant, she may, in a few years, be able to choose to take advantage of the artificial uterus. This machine is able to play the quiet and pleasant voices of the parents (of course not the angry and unsettling ones), along with music that the couple likes. This is much safer than the natural pregnancy, and you can better control the birth, which is among the most deadly high-risk activities we are exposed to. Partners may have sex if they feel like it, but it is no longer indispensable. They may as well play scrabble or tennis in order to enjoy life.
However, it is indispensable that some people have faith in life and in the value of populating this haunted planet. Some of us have to have faith in God's strange enterprise of putting a couple of homo-sapiens into a pleasant garden on a tiny blue planet for a tiny period of the long history of the universe. Unfortunately homo-sapiens has been a disaster for the environment. The whole homo-sapiens enterprise turned out to be like the release of rabbits in Australia, with a huge environmentally harmful proliferation as a result. So how should prospective parents obtain the essential belief in human life? From science? Not at all! The scientists’ optimistic view has derailed. These days science is instead worried about more loose nuclear cannons on deck, resistant bacteria and new pandemics, climate crisis and financial crisis. In the end, this planet will, in a few billion years after the last human has drawn its last breath, continue to rotate around its axis in 24 hours, as well as around the sun with lap time 365 and a fourth, and the solar system will continue to rush out into the universe at a tremendous speed. These celestial bodies will happily continue as if nothing had happened, without ever noticing that homo-sapiens is no longer on board. Science has certainly not given us any reason to hope, and it has certainly not been able to replace God:
Science cannot explain to us where we come from, why we are here and where we're going to go. Science simply does not possess the tools to analyze these types of questions. Where can we then find answers? Yes, precisely: In religion! From now on religious people will be the ones who see the greatest reason to carry their genes on. Their strong religious genes, that is. Add to this that religious people tend to be more sceptical towards contraception and abortion than other people on the planet. So sorry, atheists and critics of religion: Religion is here to stay, and faces a bright future over the next centuries. Sexual desire decreases while religion grows. Simply follow the trend in the years to come. Changes will already start to occur in a century or two.
It is totally irrelevant that religious people criticize Darwinism. Neither does it matter that the high priests of Evolution ridicule the fundamentalists for their incredible stupidity on the origin of the Earth and its inhabitants. Evolution itself is generously turning religion the other cheek, and does nevertheless strongly support the religious people. For how long will this last? It will last until science can compete with the religions in giving people hope for the future. Until science itself can find out where we come from, why we are here and where we are going. Science is nowhere near that today. It will probably still take a few centuries to develop the necessary scientific tools. The human being may very well have to leave this planet for good in ignorance, without having found any scientifically durable answers to these questions.
Against this background, it is incomprehensible that millions of empirical scientific papers can be published without the researcher giving an account of his perception of where we come from and where we're going. They act like a motorist who was struck by amnesia during a stop at a rest area: He has forgotten where he came from, and cannot remember in which direction he was travelling. But this does not seem to worry him when he studies the flora, insects or bird life on the site, analyzes the contents of the bin or in WC's, interviews people, interprets and analyzes the practice of rules, etc., etc., all with a view to publish scientific works about his findings. As if he would stay at this rest area forever. The scientists are short sighted and detailed in their abdication of the big questions, and they thoughtlessly leave humanity to religion and other loose philosophy, as an easy prey.
Evolution has spoken: Religion is going to win the battle for the future of the human species. This is not, however, to say that religion is true or that evidence of God now has been presented. On the contrary, as pointed out above, we have not been able to find the truth yet.
But this cooperation with religion is not evolution’s only plan. Evolution has an alternative plan, which may not seem as safe as the religious alternative described above. Evolution has closed in all animals a desire to have offspring. The female feels strongly that evolution is waiting for her to have offspring. This also applies to the homo-sapiens female. Evolution has evolved the woman the way that she will strongly want children. In fact, even want children regardless of all the problems I have mentioned above, and regardless of religious affiliation. And what has surprised me the most: Even atheistic women want children. Why on earth will they want that? They should not be able to find any future and hope on this planet. Why do they still want children? Why struggle with the sperm and egg donations, which religion mostly opposes? When they only create misery for the new individual they bring into life? The answer is that evolution has placed a strong desire for offspring deep into the female body and soul. This makes it physically and mentally, though irrationally, so very hard not to have children that you are willing to do anything. Not everyone can be comforted with a teddy bear or a pet. The female homo-sapiens has during the last hundred thousand years, perhaps even longer, had a conscious awareness that she actually brings forth a new human being. That the male counterpart also plays a necessary part in this is a relatively recent discovery. This must necessarily have led to genetic traces in the individual female, and as a logical result, to the fact that today's women to a greater extent than men feel a sense of loss at not getting their own offspring, almost like a blind animal impulse.
After the fading out of the troublesome sexual desire, these are evolution’s two very different main strategies to maintain human life on this planet: Cooperation with religion in persuading the humans that there is still future and hope; and on the other hand maintaining the strong evolutionary desire in the female human being to have offspring, even with the help of sperm and egg donations. Will these strategies succeed in the long run?
How evolution and religion join forces to maintain the human species.
For many thousand years evolution has supported the growth of religion. This may seem a paradox since religious books do not match Darwin’s theories very well. But evolution nevertheless strongly supports religion. Furthermore, religion and sexuality have always had a troublesome coexistence. But changes are to be expected. Let me put together some simple facts. These facts can be found in your daily newspaper and need no specific references. Nevertheless they make it possible for me to give a certain forecast for the next centuries:
Sexuality has now reached its all-time high. In our days it will culminate, and from now on it will lose its influence. Religion, on the other hand, is on the march forward. This is because we right now are about to make the biggest experiment in the entire history of mankind: From now on the success of the human species is no longer dependant on sex. During the one (or perhaps two) million years of human history up until now the statistical fact has been that much sex results in many children and little sex equals fewer children. People equipped with a great sexual desire had many children; children who therefore in the next generation were also equipped with a strong sexual appetite. Then these children grew old and had their own children with a great sexual desire and so on and so on ..... People with a lesser sexual desire made it less of a priority to spread their genes to future generations; these people gave other activities higher priority than sex. This resulted in fewer children. Thereby the overall sexual desire has increased for every generation all the way through the history of mankind and it is now culminating in a true deluge. What this has lead to, can be seen every day on the internet, on TV and in popular magazines. They are flooded with sex. But the problem from the evolution’s point of view is this: All this constant sexual activity everywhere does not result in as many children as the evolutionary history would make us expect, because the most sexually active among us are usually very aware of things like contraception and abortion.
This phenomenon will lead to the fact that now in our days the sexual desire culminates. This happens now because for the first time in history the human being does not need to have sex in order to have children. This will obviously affect the view of sex: Sex will no longer be so important, and it will no longer pose any threat to religion. That someone has sex will not be any more interesting than someone playing scrabble or tennis. No longer will sex be shocking news for journalists. For sex is no longer an existential activity for humanity. It may be a fun and exciting activity that one can enjoy, similar to other activities you may engage in. Thus, religion will rather concentrate on the fight against this gang of four; deadly sins like abortion, euthanasia, contraception and laziness, also here with the full support of evolution.
From now on the people, who bring children into this world, will be the people who have faith in life, regardless of the level or direction of their sexual desire. A man does not need to release sperm more than once, preferably while he is still young and healthy. This does not take that much sexual desire. The sperm can then be frozen so that his female partner(s) may be with children at a time when it suits them. If a woman does not want to walk around pregnant, she may, in a few years, be able to choose to take advantage of the artificial uterus. This machine is able to play the quiet and pleasant voices of the parents (of course not the angry and unsettling ones), along with music that the couple likes. This is much safer than the natural pregnancy, and you can better control the birth, which is among the most deadly high-risk activities we are exposed to. Partners may have sex if they feel like it, but it is no longer indispensable. They may as well play scrabble or tennis in order to enjoy life.
However, it is indispensable that some people have faith in life and in the value of populating this haunted planet. Some of us have to have faith in God's strange enterprise of putting a couple of homo-sapiens into a pleasant garden on a tiny blue planet for a tiny period of the long history of the universe. Unfortunately homo-sapiens has been a disaster for the environment. The whole homo-sapiens enterprise turned out to be like the release of rabbits in Australia, with a huge environmentally harmful proliferation as a result. So how should prospective parents obtain the essential belief in human life? From science? Not at all! The scientists’ optimistic view has derailed. These days science is instead worried about more loose nuclear cannons on deck, resistant bacteria and new pandemics, climate crisis and financial crisis. In the end, this planet will, in a few billion years after the last human has drawn its last breath, continue to rotate around its axis in 24 hours, as well as around the sun with lap time 365 and a fourth, and the solar system will continue to rush out into the universe at a tremendous speed. These celestial bodies will happily continue as if nothing had happened, without ever noticing that homo-sapiens is no longer on board. Science has certainly not given us any reason to hope, and it has certainly not been able to replace God:
Science cannot explain to us where we come from, why we are here and where we're going to go. Science simply does not possess the tools to analyze these types of questions. Where can we then find answers? Yes, precisely: In religion! From now on religious people will be the ones who see the greatest reason to carry their genes on. Their strong religious genes, that is. Add to this that religious people tend to be more sceptical towards contraception and abortion than other people on the planet. So sorry, atheists and critics of religion: Religion is here to stay, and faces a bright future over the next centuries. Sexual desire decreases while religion grows. Simply follow the trend in the years to come. Changes will already start to occur in a century or two.
It is totally irrelevant that religious people criticize Darwinism. Neither does it matter that the high priests of Evolution ridicule the fundamentalists for their incredible stupidity on the origin of the Earth and its inhabitants. Evolution itself is generously turning religion the other cheek, and does nevertheless strongly support the religious people. For how long will this last? It will last until science can compete with the religions in giving people hope for the future. Until science itself can find out where we come from, why we are here and where we are going. Science is nowhere near that today. It will probably still take a few centuries to develop the necessary scientific tools. The human being may very well have to leave this planet for good in ignorance, without having found any scientifically durable answers to these questions.
Against this background, it is incomprehensible that millions of empirical scientific papers can be published without the researcher giving an account of his perception of where we come from and where we're going. They act like a motorist who was struck by amnesia during a stop at a rest area: He has forgotten where he came from, and cannot remember in which direction he was travelling. But this does not seem to worry him when he studies the flora, insects or bird life on the site, analyzes the contents of the bin or in WC's, interviews people, interprets and analyzes the practice of rules, etc., etc., all with a view to publish scientific works about his findings. As if he would stay at this rest area forever. The scientists are short sighted and detailed in their abdication of the big questions, and they thoughtlessly leave humanity to religion and other loose philosophy, as an easy prey.
Evolution has spoken: Religion is going to win the battle for the future of the human species. This is not, however, to say that religion is true or that evidence of God now has been presented. On the contrary, as pointed out above, we have not been able to find the truth yet.
But this cooperation with religion is not evolution’s only plan. Evolution has an alternative plan, which may not seem as safe as the religious alternative described above. Evolution has closed in all animals a desire to have offspring. The female feels strongly that evolution is waiting for her to have offspring. This also applies to the homo-sapiens female. Evolution has evolved the woman the way that she will strongly want children. In fact, even want children regardless of all the problems I have mentioned above, and regardless of religious affiliation. And what has surprised me the most: Even atheistic women want children. Why on earth will they want that? They should not be able to find any future and hope on this planet. Why do they still want children? Why struggle with the sperm and egg donations, which religion mostly opposes? When they only create misery for the new individual they bring into life? The answer is that evolution has placed a strong desire for offspring deep into the female body and soul. This makes it physically and mentally, though irrationally, so very hard not to have children that you are willing to do anything. Not everyone can be comforted with a teddy bear or a pet. The female homo-sapiens has during the last hundred thousand years, perhaps even longer, had a conscious awareness that she actually brings forth a new human being. That the male counterpart also plays a necessary part in this is a relatively recent discovery. This must necessarily have led to genetic traces in the individual female, and as a logical result, to the fact that today's women to a greater extent than men feel a sense of loss at not getting their own offspring, almost like a blind animal impulse.
After the fading out of the troublesome sexual desire, these are evolution’s two very different main strategies to maintain human life on this planet: Cooperation with religion in persuading the humans that there is still future and hope; and on the other hand maintaining the strong evolutionary desire in the female human being to have offspring, even with the help of sperm and egg donations. Will these strategies succeed in the long run?
