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To: Altura Ct.
This hostility faced by those with troublesome ideas is, of course, itself explained by evolution. As Wade mentions earlier on, we are social creatures, and we have evolved behaviours to live as such: ‘One is a tendency to criticise, and if necessary punish, those who do not follow the agreed norms.’ That is partly why, as a species, we find it easier to talk about how the world should be, rather than how it is.

Evolutionarily speaking, did the troublesome ideas evolve first, or did the tendency to criticize those troublesome ideas evolve first? Was it this mystical convergent evolution? Does evolution select for troublesome ideas and criticisms of those ideas or, as we have been proselytized to believe that evolution selects for the 4 F's…….fleeing, fighting, feeding, and reproduction. In the human genome where is the gene for criticizing an idea?

13 posted on 05/06/2014 6:01:18 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Texas Songwriter
the 4 F's…….fleeing, fighting, feeding, and reproduction.

I see what you did there!

64 posted on 05/07/2014 8:05:29 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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