RE: Evidence God Exists
November 11, 2011 at 2:40 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2011 at 3:02 am by dtango.)
(November 10, 2011 at 6:39 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The comparative mythology angle shows us that the common experience described by religion is that of the experience of life in the natural world.
That is the easy way to explain things: no proof required!
As regards the common experience described by religion is that of the experience of life in the natural world, aka allegorical interpretation of the myths, that is a fruit offered to humanity by Theagenes of Rhegium in the 6th century BC. Before him nobody ever thought of the gods of the ancient Greeks as elements of the nature.
Plato, of course, did not believe Theagenes’ nonsense, he interpreted Homer literally and forbade the teaching of traditional mythology in his imaginary republic.
Apart from the stories about gods, the native Americans shared with the rest of the peoples some practices that you will find hard to explain: purification, sacrifice of humans and artificial cranial deformation of the infants (known from all continents without exception. It is rather rare in the sub-Saharan Africa and apparently absent from South India).
The shared experience theory is based upon the fact that we all (except the sub-Saharan Africans) come from the Near East.
Surely you know that you are, as I am, a hybrid: part Homo sapiens sapiens and part Neanderthal (1% to 4%) –unless you are an African in which case you are pure, uncontaminated by Neanderthal genes, Homo sapiens sapiens.
I assure you that it is not an easy subject. It takes a lot of reading in order to decide which theory is the correct one.
(November 10, 2011 at 7:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I don't know where you got that number from, though. The Clovis-First paradigm has taken a few serious hits in recent years.
Lately I read this. What is your info?