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- Title: Biology of Spirituality (Report)
- Author : Kevin S. Seybold
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,Professional & Technical,Engineering,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 91 KB
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Biology of Spirituality The notion that there might be a biological basis for human spiritual awareness or that spirituality might have evolved via natural selection is troubling to many people, both those with religious beliefs and those without. Alister Hardy proposed exactly that, however, when he suggested that what he called "the divine flame" is an important and necessary part of the human evolutionary process. The evolutionary process identified by Hardy was a combination of biological and cultural evolution whereby certain Homo sapiens ancestors "consciously chose" to attend to such spiritual awareness because it enabled them to better cope with existence. (1) As a zoologist, Hardy argued that "an empirical study of nature, man and human history can give us important evidence in support of a belief in a theistic universe." (2)