14th March 2003, 11:23 PM
Darunia, as I said it seems all life that will continue to exist or desires to continue existing will inevitably seek religion. To destroy the need for religion requires the destruction for the want of immortality. To destroy that want for immortality means destroying the will to live at all, in other words ALL races that do not desire immortality will become extinct, because desiring immortality is a survival trait that pretty much all life has. Things that don't desire immortality simply put will stop existing, thus the universe favors a desire for immortality. It also favors intelligence. Combine the two and you find creatures desiring religion. Evolution will only make the desire for religion stronger, because if you evolve that out, you have "evolved" a creature that will go extinct because it will stop trying to exist.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)