The evolution of religious belief in humans: a brief review with a focus on cognition.

Religion is always characteristic of humanity. This review explores the development of religious evolutionary cognitive psychology and evaluates critically different theoretical positions. Generally speaking, scholars believe that religion is adaptive, a by-product of adaptive psychological characteristics or maladaptation, and that different amounts of empirical evidence support each position . Adaptive position creates expensive religious ceremonial signal theory and group selection theory. The state of the by-product determines the psychological mechanism absorbed by the religion. This maladaptive position has created a meme religious theory. Evaluation concluded that by-product camps are most endorsed by the scientific community and proposed a method for conducting religious evolution research.

Cognitive evolution: biological evolution of the human brain. This provides an assumption about the essence of religion, as well as differences in religious beliefs and habits among historical and population ethnic groups (Watts and Turner 2014). The most obvious is that if there is evidence that religion is good for human beings, through natural selection, natural selection can be said to be made from various ideas and activities facing supernatural phenomena formed by nature. However, this simple idea excludes whether evolution is primarily biological or cultural, it immediately reveals the mechanisms involved in which studies are involved, and immediately indicates whether the true scope of the theory can be determined It is not something. For this reason, the cognitive evolutionary theory applied to religion is widely debated.

Evolution is very young compared to religious beliefs of creation and creation. Prior to Charles Darwin, evolution was an evil idea and belief in God's Creator was widely accepted. However, since Darwin introduced his theory of evolution one and a half and a half ago, discussion about theory and creation always existed. - It is a modest expression that claims almost no conflict in the realm of faith and reason. From the beginning of the scientific exploration, these two thought areas have fallen into a vicious circle and have only given up when the religion gradually modernized to adapt to the new understanding of the universe.

The evolution of theology is not a scientific theory but a special view on how evolutionary science relates to religious beliefs and interpretations. Advocates of evolution theory can be regarded as one of the groups refusing the argument about religious-science relations. In other words, they believe that the scientific theories of creation religious doctrine and evolution theory do not have to contradict each other. Supporters of this viewpoint are sometimes called Christian Darwinists. This view is based on the main Christian church, including the Catholic Church, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, the American Bishop's Church, and other mainstream Protestant denominations, almost all Jewish denominations, and other religious groups devoid of several Bibles Widely accepted by. Various Biblical scholars, including B. B. Warfield, Text Position Theologian and Billy Graham, an evangelist, have accepted and pointed out an open attitude towards this position.