Problem is, if this enlightenment merely led to no more than was current knowledge for the time - and even considerably less than was known to other civilisations - then where is the illumination? Indeed, if such enlightenment could be shown to be the result of divine revelation, as is the claim, the picture is actually worse, since it would be perfectly justifiable to ask "what the hell was the point?"
Put another way: if I came up to you and told you that rain falls from the sky, would you regard me as some great and insightful genius - even a few thousand years ago, when truly great people were estimating the size and shape of the Earth?
Put another way: if I came up to you and told you that rain falls from the sky, would you regard me as some great and insightful genius - even a few thousand years ago, when truly great people were estimating the size and shape of the Earth?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
