Mainstream Religion is Evolutionary!

Dave's got a point, but damn-it he's depressing.

I would maintain that a healthy (i.e. substantial) amount of denial is genetically heritable and preferable in that it allows us to ignore the basic sadness and desperation of life.

We can live in an illusion — in fact we are genetically predisposed to do so.

These illusions can be small.
— I am just as good at sports as Bob.
— Or they can be very large.
— That death is not the end and that I will be rewarded for my faith - and Bob, the apostate, will rot in Hell.

Either way, they allow me to go on. To persevere in the face of unlikely odds or limited chance of success.

David Byrne

Remember, we must always "endeavour to persevere."
(Thank you Chief Dan George)

We have evolved in such a way as to be less rational that one might think, and to be slightly more delusional and even stupid than one might fear.

Allan W Janssen