RE: "How God got started", how god belief + basic reason + writing -> modern humans?
October 10, 2017 at 3:50 pm
200,000 years ago in the early days of our species, WE DIDN'T KNOW SHIT.
The world was frightening to us. But Dawkins in "The God Delusion" explains how life evolved to gap fill.
In a very literal and real context, evolution drove life to seek patterns, but because humans didn't evolve with our modern knowledge we made very bad guesses.
The analogy he used was "The moth mistaking the light bulb for the natural moonlight it guide's itself by".
The other analogy would be akin to a antelope on the African plain seeing tall grass sway, but not know if it is just mere wind or a lion stalking it. Fight or flight takes over in life and our brains evolved to gap fill, even if our success in surviving is based on a very false perception.
It is no different than convincing a kid a at a nighttime Halloween party in a dark kitchen that the covered bowl of olives they stick their hands in are eyeballs. No different than when a cat or dog looks in the mirror and confuses it's reflection for a separate life. It is ultimately a comic book reflection of ourselves. Our own flaws, desires and insecurities.
It is anthropomorphism. Attributing human qualities to non existent things.
The world was frightening to us. But Dawkins in "The God Delusion" explains how life evolved to gap fill.
In a very literal and real context, evolution drove life to seek patterns, but because humans didn't evolve with our modern knowledge we made very bad guesses.
The analogy he used was "The moth mistaking the light bulb for the natural moonlight it guide's itself by".
The other analogy would be akin to a antelope on the African plain seeing tall grass sway, but not know if it is just mere wind or a lion stalking it. Fight or flight takes over in life and our brains evolved to gap fill, even if our success in surviving is based on a very false perception.
It is no different than convincing a kid a at a nighttime Halloween party in a dark kitchen that the covered bowl of olives they stick their hands in are eyeballs. No different than when a cat or dog looks in the mirror and confuses it's reflection for a separate life. It is ultimately a comic book reflection of ourselves. Our own flaws, desires and insecurities.
It is anthropomorphism. Attributing human qualities to non existent things.
