Examples Of Consilience
5. Give an example of a "consilience" explanation to one specific religious phenomenon (e.g., why do people worship snakes, etc.). Be sure to choose your own example.
Consilience is the understanding that each branch of knowledge studies a subset of reality that depends on other branches. Many religious phenomenons cannot be studied in isolation. Math underlies the working of physics, which studies chemistry, and it continues on with biology, psychology, sociology, and then we are able to understand theology.
A good example of consilience would be speaking in tongues. The biology of speaking of tongues could be explained as an abnormality of the mind. However, it could be normal depending on ones social environment. At the psychological level, …show more content…
They are the building blocks of people’s thoughts that are passed on to others. A gene is spread from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution. Memetics takes concepts from the theory of evolution and applies them to human culture. Genes are passed on from one generation to the next through reproduction. Like genes, memes are passed from one person sharing their ideas or beliefs with another. Many religions today use memetics as a means of becoming more popular than other religions. The religions spread like a virus that effect everyone that it contacts. This is done by appealing to an individual’s conscience by punishment/reward in an afterlife. For example, in Christianity, if one believes in the God they are guaranteed everlasting life in heaven and if they do no believe they are told they will spend eternity in …show more content…
The principle idea of natural selection was a man fighting for a female in order to reproduce. The only way that a man’s genes are able to continue is through reproduction. By having sex, a man was able to create a new generation and prevent his genes from dying off. Humans would migrate to places that they felt their offspring would have the best chance of survival. As we know, we are all African- American because we all migrated from Africa. The people that survived from migrating support the survival of the fittest theory. While migrating, one had to compete for land, food, sex, and adventure. This influenced cultural development because they had to come up with new ways of survival and even when things were going good, it was common to be bored from lack of variety. The idea of cultural development, as it relates to natural selection, is that in a culture, traditions, beliefs, and ideas are passed on from generation to generation and therefore those components make up ones culture. Social identity allows humans to feel as if they are a part of something and belong to a group. Sexual selection contributes to the diversity in today’s population, along with quantum mechanics and geographic
Consilience is the understanding that each branch of knowledge studies a subset of reality that depends on other branches. Many religious phenomenons cannot be studied in isolation. Math underlies the working of physics, which studies chemistry, and it continues on with biology, psychology, sociology, and then we are able to understand theology.
A good example of consilience would be speaking in tongues. The biology of speaking of tongues could be explained as an abnormality of the mind. However, it could be normal depending on ones social environment. At the psychological level, …show more content…
They are the building blocks of people’s thoughts that are passed on to others. A gene is spread from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution. Memetics takes concepts from the theory of evolution and applies them to human culture. Genes are passed on from one generation to the next through reproduction. Like genes, memes are passed from one person sharing their ideas or beliefs with another. Many religions today use memetics as a means of becoming more popular than other religions. The religions spread like a virus that effect everyone that it contacts. This is done by appealing to an individual’s conscience by punishment/reward in an afterlife. For example, in Christianity, if one believes in the God they are guaranteed everlasting life in heaven and if they do no believe they are told they will spend eternity in …show more content…
The principle idea of natural selection was a man fighting for a female in order to reproduce. The only way that a man’s genes are able to continue is through reproduction. By having sex, a man was able to create a new generation and prevent his genes from dying off. Humans would migrate to places that they felt their offspring would have the best chance of survival. As we know, we are all African- American because we all migrated from Africa. The people that survived from migrating support the survival of the fittest theory. While migrating, one had to compete for land, food, sex, and adventure. This influenced cultural development because they had to come up with new ways of survival and even when things were going good, it was common to be bored from lack of variety. The idea of cultural development, as it relates to natural selection, is that in a culture, traditions, beliefs, and ideas are passed on from generation to generation and therefore those components make up ones culture. Social identity allows humans to feel as if they are a part of something and belong to a group. Sexual selection contributes to the diversity in today’s population, along with quantum mechanics and geographic