AN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGIST'S ACCOUNT OF RELIGION? [+] serious ballot by Huspini ACTIVE Sun Mar 16, 08 - Mon Mar 16, 09 Would a plausible account perhaps be that the role of religion originates in an extended bond between parents and their offspring as a result of limited parental time? Let me clarify. Human children stay with their parents only for a limited amount of time, after which they traditionally are left to ‘survive on their own,’ generally without direct interference of the parents with the child’s daily affairs (survival, reproduction). In other cases, parents die or are separated from the child. Some of the factors that determine how strong, healthy, stable etc. a child becomes in its later life include how strong, nourishing and stable its relationship with its parents was throughout childhood. The bond between authority figures (parents) and the helpless, learning individual who needs to be guided (the child) is important here. Traditionally, stories of tribal gods and many other higher powers have been told to developing children, for many reasons, but at least one of them arguably to help guide the growing child in finding its way throughout the hardships of life. A function of this may well have been to prepare the child to make it on its own when there is no one else to seek guidance from (i.e. when the child’s parents are gone). In other words those stories may have functioned as an extended (substitute) of parental nurture. Could it be that the children who grew up with the strongest bonds with the ‘supernatural,’ those who were most feverishly motivated to perform for the gods even when the most motivating stimuli and source of progress (the parents) was absent (or even when present), survived most frequently as a result and passed on their genes until offspring were born with a tendency to find strength and motivation in supernatural stimuli? This is taken straight for a short piece I wrote for one of my courses. What do you think, is it plausible at all? Yes, it's plausible. No, that seems unlikely. Ballot #124279 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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