(November 24, 2020 at 10:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The supernatural is not interchangeable with gods, Apollo. People very clearly believed in the supernatural for tens of thousands of years before anyone seems to have hit on the idea of a god.
It’s a cognitive journey—cognitive faculties evolved over a period of time—and we see traces of this in other primates too who seem to be capable of theory of mind faculty but not there to clearly display the byproduct we seem to have.
In other words, humans didn’t wake up one day and screamed god! The concept took various forms through cognitive journey going back to cognitive revolution or may be even before. Monotheistic and polytheistic gods are more recent refined forms of that feeling of someone is watching/intent and design in nature.
