@Vicki, you completely missed my point. I only brought up whatever possibilities that occurred to me at that time. Reality is not confined by your or mine imagination. I'm not going to refute your points one by one (although they are flawed, but I think it's pretty obvious so no point pointing them out), because that's not the point. Even if every single possibility I mentioned is actually impossible (which, let's face it, you can't prove), it still doesn't mean your version of events is correct, that's a false dichotomy. Everything that I mentioned doesn't posit a god, and yours does. Yours isn't the simplest explanation, it's the explanation that requires a whole lot of other explanations, which you don't have.
And what do you mean faith couldn't have driven them to do what they did? Haven't you heard of people converting from one religion to another? Happens all the time.
If you look into a university handbook, Linguistics and Geography are often classified as science. Linguistics sometimes Art.
And what do you mean faith couldn't have driven them to do what they did? Haven't you heard of people converting from one religion to another? Happens all the time.
If you look into a university handbook, Linguistics and Geography are often classified as science. Linguistics sometimes Art.
