Tag: Atheism

Richard Dawkins: What Is the Survival Value of Human Religion?

For some reason, Big Think titled the Richard Dawkins video below “Why Religion and Evolution Don’t Mix Well” which has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of the video.

Rather, Dawkins addresses a very specific question: if natural selection favors adaptations that increase the fitness of individual organisms, how does religion increase the fitness of human beings? Why does religion persist in human cultures given that its claims about reality are false?