Born into a Southern Baptist family, January 15th, 1957, Robert Wright, a born again christian around the age of 9, later evolves into a well known journalist, historian, evolutionary psychologist and author credited with tackling controversial studies of ancient religion and the evolving existence of God throughout time. As a famous best selling author of The Evolution of God, Non Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny, editor for The Sciences, The Atlantic, co-founder and editor of Meaning of Life.tv, Bloggingheads.tv, professor at Princeton University, and frequently published writer in The New York Times, Wright 's work stirs up a magnitude of controversy among theologians, philosophers of religion, psychologist and many monotheistic religious
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His theory depicts humans fear of ignorance, a need for controlling a situation, the brains ability to perceive the supernatural beyond true nature, and the reasoning supporting why religion continues to exist. Religious evolution tolerates the human need to coexist peacefully within civilization. Though, with any long withstanding religious belief, loopholes must exist within the supernatural realm to explain the unfortunate failures in life such as, sickness, death, war, disease and more. Supportive of this reality, the reoccurring similarity within all religions resembles varying ideologies of the Golden Rule. Belief that good deeds demise good fortune as well, negative actions channel negative consequences, control the human population from social …show more content…
Infinite similarities exist within the stories and doctrines of different religions that appear to continue to thrive in modern society and over time through cultural evolution. As far as the controversial question, “Did man create God or God create man?”,Wright 's research supports his opinion that the scientific studies of social sciences can currently only prove that, man created God, and most likely for his own personal needs of control and moral responsibility. While his work rules out a possible “God gene” as well as implies that God appears an illusion to fill a space in our quest for actual truth, his research on the evolution of God, or some form there of, lacks proof that God actually does or does not exist. The readers interpretation of Wrights work may more or less leave his readers and those in question of a divine deity, acknowledging that there is favorably weighted facts leaning toward the non-existence of God without actually saying, “God does not exist.”leaves me a little disheartened that he he never really could prove, or rather that he feared making the solid confession that he has enough information to state his belief that God is merely an illusion. In his interview, I felt he skated around answering if he personally believes God does not exist. He left some uncertainties in his own conclusion, perhaps because he too, like much of our
His theory depicts humans fear of ignorance, a need for controlling a situation, the brains ability to perceive the supernatural beyond true nature, and the reasoning supporting why religion continues to exist. Religious evolution tolerates the human need to coexist peacefully within civilization. Though, with any long withstanding religious belief, loopholes must exist within the supernatural realm to explain the unfortunate failures in life such as, sickness, death, war, disease and more. Supportive of this reality, the reoccurring similarity within all religions resembles varying ideologies of the Golden Rule. Belief that good deeds demise good fortune as well, negative actions channel negative consequences, control the human population from social …show more content…
Infinite similarities exist within the stories and doctrines of different religions that appear to continue to thrive in modern society and over time through cultural evolution. As far as the controversial question, “Did man create God or God create man?”,Wright 's research supports his opinion that the scientific studies of social sciences can currently only prove that, man created God, and most likely for his own personal needs of control and moral responsibility. While his work rules out a possible “God gene” as well as implies that God appears an illusion to fill a space in our quest for actual truth, his research on the evolution of God, or some form there of, lacks proof that God actually does or does not exist. The readers interpretation of Wrights work may more or less leave his readers and those in question of a divine deity, acknowledging that there is favorably weighted facts leaning toward the non-existence of God without actually saying, “God does not exist.”leaves me a little disheartened that he he never really could prove, or rather that he feared making the solid confession that he has enough information to state his belief that God is merely an illusion. In his interview, I felt he skated around answering if he personally believes God does not exist. He left some uncertainties in his own conclusion, perhaps because he too, like much of our