At the BBC, a writer offers an explanation of the Christian practice of Communion, Darwinism-style:
But food-sharing even predates our Homo ancestors, and is currently observed in chimpanzees and bonobos. In fact, one recent paper even documented research of bonobos sharing food with bonobos outside of their own social group. Barbara Fruth, one of the study’s authors, told the digital magazine Sapiens that meal-sharing “must have its roots in our last common ancestor”. Based on the molecular clock, the last common ancestor, or LCA, of humans and Great Apes lived about 19 million years ago.
When I hear the words “This is my Body,” then, my mind immediately launches into a race to the evolutionary starting line, if you will. Brandon Ambrosino, “How and why did religion evolve?” at BBC
Along the way, he discovers that apes are spiritual:
Goodall has observed a similar phenomenon happen during a heavy rain. These observations have led her to conclude that chimpanzees are as spiritual as we are. “They can’t analyse it, they don’t talk about it, they can’t describe what they feel. But you get the feeling that it’s all locked up inside them and the only way they can express it is through this fantastic rhythmic dance.” In addition to the displays that Goodall describes, others have observed various carnivalesque displays, drumming sessions, and various hooting rituals. Brandon Ambrosino, “How and why did religion evolve?” at BBC News
We await the ape version of the Summa Theologica but in the meantime, we will settle for the Westminster Catechism.
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Imagine a world of religions that naturalism might indeed be able to explain
Oh how Convenient, a piece on the evolution of religion on Easter. This is why people DONT take this seriously. We can’t analyze it because it’s locked up inside them but it’s exactly the same practice as what we do according to him. So I guess it’s been analyzed so we don’t need to talk to them. And he observes (putting him outside and above religious practices making the religious nothing more then observable specimens) this like somehow nobody who is practicing the religion has any idea what they’re doing or is aware of what they are doing it’s all part of the ritual that they are completely out of control and do because we inherited it from an ape millions of years ago that just so happened to start doing it just because, yes quite literally just because.
I’ll remember this when my animals and dogs start to play, running around, Hooting hollering when the rain comes. It’s primitive religion that they can’t control no differently than us
I just don’t understand why these people are above this primitive instinct they can’t possibly be aware of. They must be genetically defective, something with left handedness and to many mutant genes. Some mutational load. It’s treated like there is NO REASON why someone might be an atheist or be religious.
In all seriousness I’m not mocking our atheist commentators here, not even, so I mean no offense, my rant is not directed at you. I rage like PZ Myers when it comes to this. I’m mocking this bbc idiot. It also shows an extreme lack of understanding about the body and blood of Christ. He simply running parallels. One of my favorite psychological experiments is the triangle of dots. There is no triangle in all reality just a pattern of dots, we’re the ones that like to connect the dots, We naturally do this we anthropomorphize everything.
But this is only one of the million evolutionary psychology explanations why religion exist from food sharing to building communities to survive it is the same formula Darwinian evolution uses for absolutely everything and can explain absolutely anything including the things that don’t exist.
Things evolve that is real, but Darwinian evolution is simply philosophy, and a crummy one, it’s like Clarissa explains it all, or a reverse god of gaps. I apologize this piece annoyed me. Just to find out that all of those people where brutally killed for food sharing and not belief in Christ, and let’s not forget the Holocaust, maybe the Jews should have shared better food or more food, maybe the other apes wouldn’t have tortured them to death.
I apologize for the rant
>”But you get the feeling that it’s all locked up inside them and the only way they can express it …”
Someone has been spending waaaay too much time with the primates, and not enough time thinking logically.
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And just what is the definition of ‘spiritual’
Darwinists would not know how to differentiate material things from spiritual things if their lives depended on it.
If we define spiritual things as meaning anything that cannot be reduced to a material explanation, then we find that virtually everything we take as being real and meaningful in our lives is to be defined as being spiritual and cannot be reduced to the reductive materialistic explanations, i.e. just-so stories, of Darwinian evolution.
The following article gives us a glimpse into just how impoverished the reductive materialistic explanations, i.e just-so stories, of Darwinists actually are in regards to ever explaining anything in that is spiritual.
In the following article entitled ‘Quantum physics problem proved unsolvable: Gödel and Turing enter quantum physics’, which studied the derivation of macroscopic properties from a complete microscopic description, the researchers remark that even a perfect and complete description of the microscopic properties of a material is not enough to predict its macroscopic behaviour.,,, The researchers further commented that their findings challenge the reductionists’ point of view, as the insurmountable difficulty lies precisely in the derivation of macroscopic properties from a microscopic description.”
And in the following article Dr. Michael Egnor lists many ‘spiritual’ things that we humans take for granted as being real. “Spiritual” things that are forever beyond the scope of Darwinian explanations, i.e. just-so story telling. Dr. Egnor states, “Human beings think about mathematics, literature, art, language, justice, mercy, and an endless library of abstract concepts. Human beings are rational animals.,,, Human rationality is different because it is immaterial. Contemplation of universals cannot have material instantiation, because universals themselves are not material and cannot be instantiated in matter.,,,
We are more different from apes than apes are from viruses. Our difference is a metaphysical chasm.
If something is not composed of particles or does not have physical properties (e.g., mass, energy, orientation, position, etc), it is abstract, i.e., spiritual. Numbers, distance, time, beauty, ugliness fall in that category. It is amazing how many things fall in that category even though most of us, including scientists, swear they exist physically.
In fact, the entire concept of what a Species might truly be is is an abstract “spiritual’ concept that cannot be reduced to materialistic explanations
If reductive materialism were actually true, the ability to define what a species truly is, i.e. to answer the question of what makes a rabbit truly a rabbit, and what makes an ape truly an ape, and what makes a human truly a human?” becomes impossible:
If I were a Darwinists and, as was shown by the preceding article, I could not even define what a species truly is, I would be extremely embarrassed. After all was not Darwin’s book itself entitled “Origin of Species”. Thus, not only have Darwinists never experimentally demonstrated the ‘origin of species’, it turns out that Darwinists, with their reductive materialism, can not even define what a species truly is in the first place! I would call that a fairly dramatic and embarrassing failure for a theory that purports to be the “be all/end all” scientific explanation for the origin of species. 🙂
As hopefully most everyone reading this can see by now, virtually everything we regard as being real falls into the classification of being ‘spiritual’ and not being material.
The primary thing, as far as the Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism debate is concerned, that falls into the classification of being spiritual and not being material, is immaterial information.
That is to say, the very words, i.e. the immaterial information, that the bbc authors wrote in their article to argue that apes are spiritually related to humans, those very words themselves that the bbc authors wrote prove that apes definitely do not have the capacity of human spirituality. As the following article states, “There is no evidence that great apes, however sophisticated, have any of the crucial distinguishing features of language and ample evidence that they do not. Claims made in favor of their semantic powers, we might observe, are wrong.”
Moreover, immaterial information is now shown to be its own distinct physical entity that, although it can interact with matter and energy, will never be reducible to, or emergent from, a material basis as is presupposed within the reductive materialistic framework of Darwinian thought.
In the following 2010 experimental realization of Maxwell’s demon thought experiment, it was demonstrated that knowledge of a particle’s location and/or position turns information into energy.
And as the following 2010 article stated about the preceding experiment, “This is a beautiful experimental demonstration that information has a thermodynamic content,”
And the following 2018 article states that, “Physicists have experimentally demonstrated an information engine—a device that converts information into work—with an efficiency that exceeds the conventional second law of thermodynamics.”
Thus immaterial information is now empirically shown, directly contrary to Darwinian thought, to be its own distinct physical entity that, although it can interact with matter and energy, will never be reducible to, or emergent from, a material basis as is presupposed within the reductive materialistic framework of Darwinian thought.
Again, if Darwinian evolution were a normal science, instead of basically being a pseuodo-scientific religion for atheists, this should count as a fatal falsification of their reductive materialistic theory.
As to the fact that humans alone, out of all the creatures on earth, have a unique capacity for language, the late best selling author Tom Wolfe was so taken aback by the honest confession by leading Darwinists in 2014 that they have no clue how human language could have possibly evolved, that he wrote a book on the subject., “The Kingdom of Speech”,,
In other words, humans have, completely contrary to Darwinian ‘survival of the fittest’ thinking, managed to become masters of the planet, not by brute force, but simply by our unique ability to communicate information and also to, specifically, infuse information into material substrates in order to create, i.e. intelligently design, objects that are extremely useful for our defense, basic survival in procuring food, furtherance of our knowledge, and also for our pleasure.
And although the ‘top-down’ infusion of immaterial information into material substrates, that allowed humans to become ‘masters of the planet’, was rather crude to begin with, (i.e. spears, arrows, and plows etc..), this top down infusion of immaterial information into material substrates has become much more impressive over the last half century or so.
Specifically, the ‘top-down’ infusion of mathematical and/or logical information into material substrates lies at the very basis of many, if not all, of man’s most stunning, almost miraculous, technological advances in recent decades.
What is more interesting still about the fact that humans have a unique ability to understand and create information, and have come to dominate the world through the ‘top-down’ infusion of information into material substrates, is the fact that, due to advances in science, both the universe and life itself, are now found to be ‘information theoretic’ in their foundational basis.
As Vlatko Vedral, who is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, and who is also a recognized leader in the field of quantum mechanics, states
By the way, “the ‘grammar’ of the human genetic code is more complex than that of even the most intricately constructed spoken languages in the world.”
It is hard to imagine a more convincing proof that we are made ‘in the image of God’, than finding that both the universe and life itself are ‘information theoretic’ in their foundational basis, and that we, of all the creatures on earth, uniquely possess an ability to understand and create information, and have come to ‘master the planet’ precisely because of our ability infuse information into material substrates.
Perhaps a more convincing proof that we are made in the image of God could be if God Himself became a man, defeated death on a cross, and then rose from the dead to prove that He was God.
And that just so happens to be precisely the proof claimed within Christianity.
Thus in conclusion, the Darwinian worldview is a severely impoverished and bankrupt worldview that lacks the intellectual funds that are necessary to cash out and explain everything that is truly unique and important about human life. i.e. It denies everything that is immaterial and spiritual. Immaterial, spiritual, things that give meaning to our lives and also give humans the unique attributes and abilities that are directly associated with us uniquely being ‘made in the image of God’.