Anachronism

[marylandblue]

9. There can be no citation because the proposition is undefined.

He said, "we still behave in the same basic ways as our ancestors." How do we know which behaviors are "basic" and which are not. No doubt, if people still do them, they are basic, and if nobody still does them, they aren't.

So religion must basic because there are enough people around who still practice it. Living in small nomadic bands of 150 people or less is not basic even though we did that for 98% of human history, because almost nobody does that anymore.