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Originally Posted by freeztar
Is this simply a creationist statement, or do you have something to back up such a bold statement?
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Good question! For social evolution to be biological, societies would have to have genes and chromosomes. Since they do not, there is no biological evolution. However, evolutionary natural selection must definitely be occurring because human society has undergone immense change with the result we now populate the whole Earth and have advanced an immense cultural heritage. None of that can be attributed to biological evolution because there has been no significant change biologically.
What has been happening is that there is a non-biological form of natural selection going on which resembles the biological form but which follows its own processes. We are evolved hunting-gathering group primates evolved to live in small groups. Only because we could use language were we able to build societies and live in huge masses together in cities. We developed immense ideological-religious world view systems that bonded us into these societies. That is their natural, cause and effect function. They start out advanced for the times that they are needed and provide a solid, rigid structure to the society. This allows it to function as a sort of unit in a way not unlike how a group of howler monkeys will go to the edge of their territory and "hurl insults" at the other Howlers in the next territory. This tightens the bond they have and increases solidarity just like what happened with 9/11 and the U.S. "came together" like it had not in a half century, a state that last perhaps two years.
But religions grow old and are outgrown. Their bond weakens. Natural selection occurrs and they are all eventually replaced. Look back into world history and there are more dead mainstream religions than living ones! I explain the whole process in my website . . .
charles
