If evolution had been known all along...

[FrostyBoy]

What would civilization be like? Brutal? Peaceful? Would we be more advanced or less advanced?

Something tells me we would be more brutal and less advanced.

More brutal because we would recognise that we are all there are, there's nothing to aspire to.

Religion opened up mathematics, engineering, war - which lead to important inventions, the printing press, it even opened up our minds to imagine in that which doesn't exist.

Of course, now I don't think religion serves anymore purpose in the modern world, as an advanced civilization, we have grown out of it, like a teenager to adulthood. It has been made redundant.

[Aeson]

There would have still been religion. Evolution doesn't answer all questions, and is not mutually exclusive with the concept of god(s) or the afterlife.

[Berzerker]

dont see how it would effect civilization, we're sinners regardless of where we came from

[Kidlicious]

Re: If evolution had been known all along...

Originally posted by FrostyBoy
Religion opened up mathematics, engineering, war - which lead to important inventions, the printing press, it even opened up our minds to imagine in that which doesn't exist.

Are you serious? War is brutal, yet you're saying that if there were no religion we would be more brutal. I don't think you're thinking clearly.

What makes you think we aren't brutal? We're very brutal.

[Unimatrix11]

Funny idea, that he who believes in evolution cannot to be religious.

[Robert]

There have always been ideas about evolution.
If I'm correct, the epcurians from Greece believed in a form of materialism, they were debating this all the time.

Evolution is not *new*
There's always been believe in evolution. Except perhaps the middle ages.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Aeson
There would have still been religion. Evolution doesn't answer all questions, and is not mutually exclusive with the concept of god(s) or the afterlife.

Indeed. I believe in God but I don't believe in divine creation of life itself.

[Unimatrix11]

One could also say, that evolution was god´s way to create...

[MrFun]

Pfffft. I don't even believe in that. In my belief, God is completely separate and uninvolved with the evolution of life.

[Ecthy]

What's left of god? What will we never know?

Identity!

[Ecthy]

What's left of god?

What will we never know?

Identity!

[RGBVideo]

Re: If evolution had been known all along...

Originally posted by FrostyBoy
Of course, now I don't think religion serves anymore purpose in the modern world, as an advanced civilization, we have grown out of it, like a teenager to adulthood. It has been made redundant.

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[GePap]

Re: If evolution had been known all along...

Originally posted by FrostyBoy

Religion opened up mathematics, engineering, war - which lead to important inventions, the printing press, it even opened up our minds to imagine in that which doesn't exist.

Bull****. People had plently of self-interested motives having nothing to do with metaphysical or moral quandries to create tools or methods to improve their basic material lives. The most crucial human discoveries were agriculture and animal husbandry, and those had far more to do with the fact people get hungry than praying to any deity.

Religion, as opposed to mysticism or basic superstition, is a creation of civilization, not the cause of it.

[DirtyMartini]

thread is more evidence that the only thing the internet is good for is porn and exhaustively, tediously, infinitely discussing the religion vs. evolution debate.

[GePap]

Come on, the internet is great at finding funny videos, pirated copyrighted materials, and wasting time reading blogs and other opinion pieces.