(September 24, 2013 at 2:24 pm)Monolens Wrote: Hi!
As was announced in introduction I 'm ready to present the scientific method to prove atheistic idea.
My investigation, which took 4 years, was an analysis of human language structure. By using the tools of reverse engineering and statistic big data analysis, I was able to find the correlations inherent in any language.
I have started to understand the deepest algorithmic structure of human language. With time, I understood the reason of existence of such logic structure.
I have performed tests with using of found correlations and received relatively limited amount of meanings, which were:
The ship, the horns, the cow, the cat, the fish, the horse, the god, the circle, the water
In the mean time I was reading many historical and religious books and I was excited when one by one this limited set of meanings started to appear in most of human religions.
The most significant example is the cow which image is widely used in any continent.
Sumerian – Sacred bull.
Ancient Egypt - the celestial cow Nun.
The Slavs - heavenly divine cow Zimun.
Hinduism - Sacred Cow, lunar god Soma.
The reason why the cow is so common and sacred is the shape of its horns, which was traditionally identified with the horns of crescent moon.
The Moon is the object, which ancient people were identifying as the god. It can be found in different forms in any world religion.
To continue previous example:
Islam - whose symbol is the crescent.
Christianity - the fish. The cross with crescent. The semicircle nimbus. Jesus is called Alpha. Alpha means “bull”.
Judaism – horned Moses, golden calf.
Freemasonry - angle, compass, the moon-shaped letter G.
Buddhism - the full moon day is celebrated each month. “Buddha” means enlightened. Also has a semicircle nimbus and shows horns by his hand.
Wicca - Lunar religion led by the horned god.
There are also many linguistic correlations, which can be discussed in case of interest.
So I came to the conclusion that all human religions came from very ancient belief, that the Moon is the god. This misunderstanding has occurred due to limited or none knowledge about the nature of our satellite.
As we still have very low information about this object, our ancient ancestors were only able to guess what is the creature, which is present everyday during all their lives. And their guesses generated the new entity which we know as the god.
Thank you for attention!
Looking to hear your opinions about above.
I think you are reaching for conclusions way beyond what available evidence implies.
First of all, I see no analysis of any language structure.
Secondly, there may be no actual connection between the cow-horns and the moon. An equally valid hypothesis is that in the ancient agricultural societies cows were one of the few domesticated animals which were the source of food and labor. Thus they became associated with the idea of a "provider" and therefore "divine". Nothing to do with moon at all.
The crescent symbol. similarly, has no relation to the cows but is a recurring feature in religions because it was a handy way to keep time. That does not imply that anyone necessarily regarded moon as god.
Regardless, even if your hypothesis was true, the concept of god has developed way beyond that idea. Which means whatever the ancient civilizations regarded as god or gods is no longer applicable today. Therefore, arguing against an outdated notion of god would not prove the "atheistic idea".