Good point …

… Guest Post: Turning the Atheistic Flavor of Evolutionary Biology on Its Head. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

So, someone who believes evolutionary biology is the cat’s meow, and who finds a widespread human practice, so widespread that we have never encountered a single culture where it is absent, and one into which a huge amount of energy is poured, would have to say it is most likely adaptive, right?

Wrong! Not if the practice is religion: Then this universal, high-energy consuming activity turns out to be a social pathology! (This link is only intended to be representative of the genre: you can find plenty more examples with a little search.) Religion is ubiquitous in human life not because it has helped us to survive, but because it kills us! It is very telling that, when it comes to their bête noire, the rules of evolutionary thinking are suddenly reversed.