Is Darwinian Reincarnation Disproving God?

Countless times, scientific arguments have contradicted religious beliefs. However, a new take on the theory of evolution has finally made science and religion agree on something for once, and that is on reincarnation.

Darwinian Reincarnation claims that the stages of near-death experiences, namely out of body experiences, seeing dark voids with the light in the end, reviewing or experiencing one’s life all over again like a flashback, and many more, are actually the death process.

The stages could differ from one person to another. It depends on his age, beliefs, culture, and other factors. The first stage is the out of body experience, where the dead will gain a perspective different from his physical body. Perhaps this is the view from his subtle body. The second stage is seeing a dark void with a light in the end. It gives the idea that he is now transitioning to another world. The third stage is the arrival to the “other side,” followed by the life review, wherein he will examine his whole life all over again. In certain religions, this stage is parallel to the reviewing of karma, the judging through the Book of Life, and the weighing of the scale by Anubis. Life review is the most crucial part of his death process, for in this stage he feels positive or negative emotions towards the things he has done in his life. In this way, he is having an idea which actions to avoid and which to repeat in his next life.

Darwinian Reincarnation argues that this process of our death is an evolutionary trait, meaning that somewhere in our evolutionary history it has helped our species for better survivability.

Natural selection happens when a species has a specific trait that gives it more survivability. In time, those who do not have the specific trait die off and those who have it will flood the whole species. The problem is that when a person dies, he does not pass down a trait. So how can our death process be an evolutionary trait?

 It is important to note that in order for evolution to take place, there should be a sort of pressure on the survival of the species. In the case of humans, this would be the ridiculous amount of things we need to learn about the complexities of human society. Reincarnation gives us an advantage by pre-adapting us to social success in cultural environments. This happens when the information from the dead’s life review is passed to an unborn child, giving the child ideas on which actions to do or avoid so he could climb the social ladder. The more he climbs up closer and closer to becoming the alpha male, the more chances he has for mating. Thus, he has more chances of passing his DNA.

So how does this, the information concerning how to live in complex cultures and what actions are best to climb the social ladder, enter an unborn young? It travels through the Earth’s magnetic field. Simply think of the information as a radio feed, and the unborn young’s consciousness is the radio. Once the unborn’s mind generate brain waves that could cater to this information, it is likely that the information will be captured by the unborn’s brain. The same concept on how a radio works.

I am not sure if Darwinian Reincarnation is already an accepted scientific theory, but I think it is still a hypothesis that is greatly discussed. Whichever the case, I am very interested on how this argument will affect religion in general.

What I find disappointing in Darwinian Reincarnation is that in a subtle way, it is trying to tell us that we should look at spirituality and the supernatural in a natural way, something science can tackle, like evolution, consciousness, and brain waves. In another perspective, maybe it is telling us that the all-loving God we know does not exist, and what exists is a universal consciousness that connects us all.

As I read further regarding modern science and spirituality, I can almost say that Christianity will fall in a few years, and there will raise a new religion that involves science and new age consciousness, which will be embraced by many, since almost all of us will fall for anything scientific. Of course, I have no right to make such a bold prediction. It is just my speculation, as more and more people embrace science and seek spiritual consciousness.

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