Religion and Adaptation

From its earliest days, Human society has involved appeals to assistance from a deity in the promotion of vital processes.  In other words, Religion has always been part of how it has adapted to its environment, and the deity addressed is implicitly conceived as subsisting in that environment.  Theological systematization, no matter how elaborately developed, does not change that Ecological status.  For example, the Geocentrist Heaven that encompasses the Human world, from which a Fall, and to which an Ascension, constitute the primary content of appeals to a deity for help, is thus part of the Human environment.  Nor does the post-Geocentrist Spirit vs. Matter transformation of the Heaven-Earth contrast alter the Ecological status of both realms, and of the deity that rules both of them, i. e. as constituting the Human Environment, to which Religion is an Adaptation strategy.  Likewise, as Theologically radical as Kant's proof of the existence of a deity on the basis of Pure Practical Reason might be, the role in his system of mundane Happiness that is a divine reward for Rational conduct is still part of an Adaptation-To an Environment.   His concept of Autonomy connotes a moment of liberation from a dependence on an Environment, but by hoping that such independence be rewarded, he surrenders it.