Originally Posted by
timber
Evolutionary biology and behavioural psychology have been bed fellows for decades. AKA: your genes make you behave x way. Its form of scientific material reductionism and branch of atheism. We are just chemicals acting out of a machine without purpose, meaning, direction, all occurring by chance in a cold empty universe. Our intelligence is simply a function of our large brains that mysteriously evolved to fill and niche and now we are destroying our habitat and headed for annihilation. All altruism is a by-product of tit-for tat principles and spirituality is a collateral ghost, something to be overcome by rationality and logic. The superstitious are weak minded and the Third-person objective narrator is the only one to be trusted as real.
Fun isn't it? This is the new modality for present modern cosmology.