RE: Hello soulcalm17
July 11, 2024 at 6:56 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2024 at 7:01 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(July 11, 2024 at 12:39 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(July 11, 2024 at 11:28 am)soulcalm17 Wrote: It seems that doing the contemplation is the advanced human brain can do based on evolution theory. So if your idea was true, there would be at earlier time people not being religious. And as time continue, they developed the idea of that supranatural things, because their brain was developed.
But the fact is otherwise. The discoveries of artifacts always found that human always did many things with God’s stuff. I quoted article from Britannica Encyclopedia :”As far as scholars have discovered, there has never existed any people, anywhere, at any time, who were not in some sense religious”.
Sounds like the editors of that encyclopedia need a talking to. What we find in the archeological record is exactly what you've proposed as evidence for his idea being true. There's a gap between anatomic and full modernity of approx 100k years at a minimum, with things like religion developing -very- late in the game..around 50kya. It would take another 40k or so before we get to the first inklings of monotheism. Then another 9k to get from there to islam.
Thanks for the info. Actually whether me or atheist both limited by the difficulty of artifacts findings of the assumptions. But the important point is archaeological findings didn't finish yet. There were always found some new discoveries that can changed our understanding before. For example, the earliest modern human fossil by now is about 300k years ago. But later if we found new fossil that dated 400k years ago, the assumption will change.
Like "the religion things" discoveries. It could be many new findings in the future. For example, I just already know that the world's oldest ritual was about 70.000 years ago by archeological find in Botswana (source: "World’s oldest ritual discovered. Worshipped the python 70,000 years ago", link:
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