Fear, The Motor Of Evolution

Fear is born and belief is made by every human being who passes through the planet. Because we are not sure about what science can’t prove, we as humans have an innate tendency to create beliefs to fill in the holes in our understanding of life and it’s sometimes unfathomable events. There is also the reality that repeating these beliefs in all kinds of forms somehow makes them become truth or somewhat believable. If we critically think about what el ‘Ave Maria’ or ‘Padre Nuestro’ is about, we can see that they repeat the stories from the biblical events in order to come up with strong conclusions to assure people about God’s mind and existence. We can also see that it becomes a ritual for people to use these when at Church or Synagogue in order to show that they are doing their ‘jobs’ as true believers correctly. This also happens in political parties and extremist political views that have religious fervor.

We can also notice that most of the time as ‘believers’ we really don’t want to be there. As other sources, “The Secret” or “An Elegant Universe”, state as universal laws that what we intentionally imagine through focused thought, imagery and emotions will come true and they both emphasize the idea that repetition is vitally important. We are thus assured by ‘cosmic energy’ laws to get what we want. In a way this makes us think that doubting (using critical thinking) makes it impossible for things to happen. Back to religion… we see that in a way, repeating is an assurance where science falls short and beliefs start in human beings. We can witness this in action when in church ceremonies most of the talking is done by the priest and by saying ‘Amen’ we are agreeing or signing that we accept that prayer and believe these words. There is something a bit amazing how we accept these ideas so readily. All forms of modern media also use this fact to sell us soaps, deodorants (fear of being smelly and non-attractive) to political figures like Obama (fear of another 4 years of Bush policies).

We have always admired great ideas and inventions that have been stimulated into creation by our fears. For example, we invented electricity due to our fear of darkness, religion due to our fear of death and chaos ruling our life, zoos to be close to fierce animals that we are afraid of, space rockets that go to the moon and beyond in case the earth is destroyed by us or natural events. Fear is something that causes the best and the worst in us to flourish.