The myth begins with the ascension of dominance by means of a natural mechanism whereby He[1] installed Himself as our biological family’s single conscious Being for the six million years of our existence prior to Homo sapiens. For the first three and a half million years, this Being established its foundation in the Rule of …
I came to an understanding that the secular progress in the history of our fallen species has been due the long evolved capacity for individuals to construct and subjugate themselves to rules of fairness in the form of secular law in ever expanding groups. Under the authority of law, political and economic competition has progressively …
The following is a meditation taken from the end of my book in which I am grappling with the fear that my conclusions about the existence and reality of God are mere “rationalizations.” This scene takes place in the presence of the ashes of my beloved brother: I think of myself as someone who now …
First let’s dispense with the He or She issue as to how to refer to God. In my “mythology,” apes were going extinct six to seven million years ago due to low birth rates partially due to the massive waste of energy in constant male political competition over females in the face of deteriorating climates. …
For six million years, we evolved in small monogamous groups and grew brains that functioned to coordinate these groups as organisms. From the beginning, our language was focused on “reading” each other from minute to minute in order to divine our role in the intentions of our groups to survive. The vast brain growth during …
In this blog much converging evidence has been presented that humans have been the legacy of three fundamental evolutionary epochs. The first and least controversial was our 50 million primate legacy. It was during this time that hierarchical groups were formed characterized by relationships of dominance and submission. Brain size was determined by the need …
The following is a quote from my clinical book, Diagnosing and Treating Mental Illness, which is its sole reference to religion: “It has been said that AA is the most positive social movement to come out of the 20th century. It is a grassroots, folk movement with a down-to-earth spiritual dimension. AA is a people’s …
…Another strand of thought, which I had not yet really connected to others in my thinking over the years, had taken root in my imagination and seeded a religious direction. This line of logic went back to Hamilton and Dawkins’ idea of the selfish gene. It was the concept of a “relational gene.” The phenotype …
Most people are not aware that our own Homo sapiens species within our original hunter gatherer bands were decidedly not hierarchical. In Hierarchy in the Forest, the evolution of egalitarian behavior (1999,) Christopher Boehm brought to my attention one of the most important enigmas to be solved in the subject of human evolution: how and …
Months after my birth in 1941, Roosevelt secretly met with Churchill at Argentia, Newfoundland with the storm clouds of world war ominously looming. With British and American battle ships lashed together, the sailors all sang “Onward Christian Soldiers.” Although that battle song would be stricken from the hymnals following the war, this was a luminous …
We have understood that by means of the process of selection inclusion, the individual dominance mentalities of kinship groups Ascended into the authority of God dispensing justice and evolved over 6 million years the power of multiples of individuals to work together under a single Will. We have understood that our own Homo sapiens species …
So, the ancient Israelis were the first to recognize that the power of God was tied to the rule of justice, and the Kings that invoke God without these rules bring nothing but devastation. However, what sets the Israelis apart from the other three axial cultures (Greece, Buddhist India, and Confucian China) is their maintenance …
We have mythologized that God created man by means of the Ascension of dominance into the entity of authority over small, monogamous groups. The structure and function of these groups transformed into organisms by virtue of the evolved foundation of absolute morality in the …
In The Social Conquest of Earth, E. O. Wilson soft-pedals and sugarcoats the darkness of his vision of human nature so transparently expressed in his novel, Anthill, as similar to chronically warring colonies of ants – all our virtue derives from the cooperation necessary for groups to successfully wage war. In his ant myth of …
The stagnant myth that has seeped unnoticed down into a pool beneath our current secular philosophy is that, when humans got smart enough to worry about what happened to us after death and to wonder about the cosmos around us, we invented first religion and then God. Freud, the philosopher: we concocted a father who …
All power on this earth derives from 6 million years of evolution in which kinship groups of 20-30 individuals evolved to divide their labor and function as a single organism. The founding mothers of hominid Family domesticated the males into the fecundity of a monogamous mating system in which males had a genetic stake in …
This is a complex FAQ, but a very important one because deep misunderstanding on this issue is a large reason for the hostility against religion. I am going to use E.O.Wilson as my philosophical foil to begin with because there are two important points on which we agree. First is that all human power …
I wish to be clear about the differences between Dr. Wilson’s vision of who we are based on his knowledge of ants and various other insects and my knowledge based on my direct observation of human emotions. First, as far as the “kin selection” debate, he dismisses the importance of William Hughes’ landmark finding …
Was sexual selection enough of an evolutionary force to establish monogamous kinship groups of 20-30 individuals with bonds strong enough to coordinate food gathering and fighting off predators? The answer is a resounding NO. Another evolutionary force emerged in nature 6 million years ago for the first time on this earth. Starting with a …
Theistic God <<Versus>> Deistic God Albert Einstein believed in a deistic God, which …