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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Actually, this thread is about evolution explaining God as opposed to evolution versus God.
Cowperson
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There are many a varied opinion as to the relation...
Daniel Dennett, the philosopher has proposed that religion evolved like a virus, suggesting that it infected our ancestors and continued to spread throughout cultures. Anthropologist Pascal Boyer argued that religious belief is a byproduct of a brain that evolved to detect predators and other survival needs. In this view, the brain developed a hair-trigger detection system to believe the world is full of "agents" that affect our lives. And British biologist Lewis Wolpert, with yet another theory, posits that religion developed once humans understood cause and effect, allowing them to make complex tools. Once they started to make causal connections, they felt compelled to explain life's mysteries. Their brains, in essence, turned into "belief engines."
Based on the above it may be entirely probable that ones position in life as a scientist, philosopher, anthropologist, etc etc would be the base from which to begin a theory or explanation.
None of these have anything to do with proving an actual God exists.