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The Atheist Experience 27.267 07-09-2023 with Secular Rarity and Forrest Valkai

The Atheist Experience

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The Importance of Religion in Evolution

So yeah evolution we basically religion contributed to our survival if we evolve to become religious. The belief in religion or spirit dominated that culture for tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years God footprint in the natural world I'm helping us survive due to religion because these religious beliefs help us with terror management and survival and unification. These experiences and beliefs prove to prove a transcendent reality that helped us survive so it doesn't matter what you think about Pascal's wager works in evolution right? If you assume there's a tiger there isn't then you're still surviving and you're still having offspring if you assume there isn't a tiger and there is your debt. We find patterns that we see

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