This letter appears in today's Leicester Mercury:
It's in the genes
Looking at religion with, possibly, a more practical slant than the recent inter-faith week my impression is that:
Societies where a majority have a personal religious belief tend to prosper. Societies where organised religions are in charge tend to ossify. Societies where religious belief is largely absent tend to decay in an excess of personal self-indulgence.
It is said that the majority of people are "hard-wired" to believe in a deity. If so, then Darwin's theory of the "survival of the fittest genes" suggests that we should not discourage such belief. In terms of evolution, it is the most successful adaptation and the most highly evolved.
Russ Ball, Leicester
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