(6:41 to 8:50)

That is worth letting-in for a moment.

If there is such a thing as reincarnation and everything about our species comes from our evolution then reincarnation is the product of biological evolution.

The same process that got us binocular vision, upright posture, the ability to walk as we do, our language. Everything about us comes from evolution.

We reincarnate

But because of the nature of the phenomena, this behaviour, (dying in a certain way for some certain purpose) is something that we can’t actually observe first hand, without being dead, we can’t prove reincarnation happens. What we can do though is look at the evolutionary advantage, (the value in terms of survival) that reincarnation would have conferred on us. And then look at some of the mechanisms as to how it might work.

And this would give the theory an explanatory power. And one of the things that tends to be the hallmark of a good scientific theory is that it can explain a lot, hopefully more than its predecessor. Now the predecessors to the idea that I’m going to be presenting tonight, which I like to call “Darwinian Reincarnation”, is the idea of sin, virtue, heaven, hell, God, judgement and that whole complex of ideas.

You don’t have to have a very good theory to explain things better than that complex of ideas explains explained them.

In terms of traditional reincarnation I read things that told me that if I ate pork I might reincarnate as a pig. If I swatted too many flies I might reincarnate as an insect. It is a guide to pushing people into a kind of morality.

And that’s different from a guide to the Truth. (8:50)