Study finds beliefs about all-knowing gods fosters
co-operation
The research, an international collaboration among
anthropologists and psychologists, looked at how religion affects humans'
willingness to co-operate with those outside their social circle.
I'm a strong believer that religion serves the purpose of
large-scale human population cooperation, and that despite how much people
(like myself even) think it instead today acts as a thought-smothering default
state in response to difficult decision-making tasks, it has been, in the early
development of human civilization, totally necessary for that development to
take place, and that science (a kind of anti-religion) would not exist today
had it not been for religion, and that the two are part of the same continuum
of cultural evolution. This piece here is a good start for a more
well-articulated discussion on the matter.
