LIVE DEBATE - The More We Evolve, The Less We Need God

Nice to see an honest debate that's both logical and civilized with equal time devoted to both those in favor and those against the

Streamed live on Mar 27, 2018

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Does God have a place in 21st century human affairs? For many, the answer is an unapologetic yes. Belief in a higher power, they argue, is the foundation of human consciousness and the soul of all social, political, and scientific progress.
Further, some claim, humans are biologically predisposed to embrace religion and require faith to live moral lives. Others are far more skeptical. For them, adherence to faith and religious tradition serves only to fracture communities and prevent humanity from embracing a more enlightened, reasoned, and just social order.
As we look to the future in uncertain times, should spirituality and religion play a central role in human evolution, innovation, and discovery? Or has God become obsolete?
Cast YOUR vote on the motion "The More We Evolve, The Less We Need God" at http://smarturl.it/ReligionDebateVote

For the Motion:
Heather Berlin, Cognitive Neuroscientist
Michael Shermer, Founder, The Skeptics Society & Best-Selling Author

Against the Motion:
Dr. Deepak Chopra, Integrative Medicine Advocate & Best-Selling Author
Dr. Anoop Kumar, Emergency Physician & Author, "Michelangelo's Medicine"
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As We Evolve, Do We Need God?

Posted on: April 17, 2018 | Comments: 0

By Deepak Chopra, MD and Anoop Kumar, MD

We recently participated in a public debate on the proposition “The more we evolve, the less we need God.” The results were clearly in favor of the proposition against the stance we took. This was so amongst both the live audience and the online audience.

 The cerebral cortex, the most recent part of the human brain to evolve, hasn’t changed for more than ten thousand years. The writers of the world’s ancient spiritual texts used the same brain as modern people, and since the world’s religions revere these ancient texts, we accept that the Ten Commandments and the Four Noble truths of Buddhism came from minds whose processes we’d recognize today, however dissimilar the cultures of ancient Judea and India.

 It must be cultural evolution that is relevant, and of course our modern secular culture has moved away from the age of faith. Rationalism seems to dominate our lives, and when we read of religious fanaticism, we feel that such issues belong to people living outside the reach of a modern secular society. Few people seeing news on TV of an attack in Paris or London feel an impulse to fight back by re-energizing their own religious beliefs. Being secular can easily feed the belief that one has evolved beyond God, religion, dogma, and the whole rigmarole. . .
READ MORE > https://www.choprafoundation.org/articles/as-we-evolve-do-we-need-god/