CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Adaptation, Psych, Cheese Sandwich
6 Mar 2017
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Religious beliefs and practices = very wide-spread across cultures and time. According to 2011 poll: 25% of canadians who attend weekly services don"t believe in. And 25% of canadians who believe in god but don"t identify with any religion. Supernatural entity that is all-knowing and is the creator . Idea is that we take the methods od evolutionary psych, developmental psych, cog. Psych, etc. and combining those methods we try to establish answers to the following types of questions: What evolutionary function does religion serve? (main debate) Random mutations and variations in the genetic material of organisms. Some of these mutations result in adaptive traits that are beneficial in terms of survival of the fittest. No function view = defended by many cognitive scientists specifically the 4 horsemen of new atheism (4 books) 1 cog sci modules evolved for other reasons misfire and appropriate religion. Mind has hyper-active agency detection device (hadd):
