Section 4 of Chapter 1:
The idea of supra-natural forces
But hope alone was not enough in order to resist
to the strong forces of nature, so mankind added the belief
in something stronger than nature and thus able to provide some help.
And of course we found a way to ask for help:
I am speaking about rituals, mostly done by the
whole community together, or pray which can be done by a
single person too.
It is a recurrent phenomena in history that mankind try to
explain what it cannot understand using something outside the physical
realm, till some progress in science shows that it was actually a
"normal" physical phenomenon.
Interesting important point is the contradiction in itself:
if we do not understand what happen, why do we want to explain
it using something which we understand even less?
And further: to believe in something that we cannot really prove
is a bad habit, because it teaches us of not thinking.
To "believe" means that we have to accept
what has been delivered by some "prophet" without asking any
question or having doubts.
And this is a very bad habit to teach to young people.
Young people should be respectful but very critical with what they hear
from their teachers. Teachers are human and thus can make mistakes.
In a comment on FaceBook on 29th October 2020, Mr. Altin Gjataj wrote:
... you seems to suggest that there is a survival advantage to
incline toward reassuring, but false interpretations ...
I think that it is difficult to answer this question, but I could say that
if you have a strong belief, than you will be less scared by any opponent,
which could be an animal as well a human from another tribe.
Thus I would say that yes, having a strong belief, even if we know that
it was wrong, could give an evolutionary advantage.
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