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Originally Posted by wig
Whoa, there's a lot to unpack in this and I'm not even going to try.
I'll go with the idea that credulity is an evolutionary advantage, but I'm not aware of there being a religion gene. Let's start there. Do you have a source for this?
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Must search university researches, such stuff is not mass marketed in press. Some 15 years ago I've studied lots of this overly-complicated anthropology stuff for scientists-only and there was some agreement and evidence. But the topic is controversial as religious people not even trust in evolution, and sure such type of documentary would not be produced for TV shows, and can't be made short enough for a magazine article.
In general and very shortly: it is true that whatever and whoever reached contemporary time, is what won a million year competitive battle, and since past few thousands years and even dozen years have majority of religions governing nations and single people's, then it means the atheist ones lost battles (for whatever reasons) in most or all the previous ages, battles, societies, and so on.
This does not mean religion is true or nice, simply the atheists are not likely to outnumber religious people in next few centuries, and not to win the political power anytime soon too, except maybe a few small state's who may be considered as sinners by the bigger ones. If anyone of you have checked the string theory and quantum phisics, that's enough confusing to seem like we're into Matrix and who knows, maybe there's god out there, so, don't expect science to demonstrate that atheism is true.