Genetic determinist atheists

[fine_clarity]

Like many, if not the majority of people in this group, I am an atheist, who believes that whether a person is a theist or an atheist is largely the result of neural traits. Neural traits are primarily caused by the genes

Comments

[tiltedsideways]

Do you really believe that a desire to promote "truth" and "justice" are genetically determined?

Or that "truth" and "justice" are anything more than relative cultural constructs?

Ooppps, sorry. I shouldn't debate you. We are genetically determined to disagree.

/sarcasm

[writerspleasure]

sounds interesting so long as it doesn't become destructive in an ideology of determined constructiveness.

[tormod]

Sounds like the atheist version of Calvinism. It seems far-fetched that complex ideas like morality are entirely nature and no nurture.

[andjay]

what's interesting is how irrevelent this distinction is, between theists and atheists.

Basically, even if the scientific roots of atheism are true, and that theism is a neural psychoemotional affectation, does it really MATTER what the root cause is to someone of who believes in God? No, it doesn't. They only know that they believe.

The converse is true of a theist's view of atheism: Even if the religious roots of theism are true, does it really matter what people who believe in God think to atheists? No, they're probably more concerned with focusing on scientific causes of things.

The mutual disregard that each "camp" has for the other, ironically enough, serves not as a cause for separation, but as a bond that ties them together.

We are all human, are all different. Get over it already.

[tormod]

There are plenty of theists who are scientifically-minded, and plenty of atheists who are not. Even if theism is a neural psychoemotional affectation,one could argue that those emotions were programmed by a deity.

Science can offer no support or denial for theism or for atheism.

[jryson]

I can go along that religiosity and the sense of the presence of the divine are at least partly genetically caused.

But what has this to do with whether or not there is divinity?