(July 10, 2014 at 1:36 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The God character at that time was the Babylonian Emperor.
The following is offered without evidence, but I like to believe it, so I do.
Chimps and humans share common ancestry. At the time of our most recent common ancestor, chimp and human behavior were identical. They have subsequently diverged and probably neither's culture is what it was then, but let's pretend. Chimps today act like humans in the distant past.
Chimps are observed in troops. Let's call them tribes. Where there are overlap of tribe territories, there are interactions some of which are violent. It is observed that gangs of one tribe will attack and kill an isolated member of another tribe if opportunity affords itself. How might the attackee defend itself in such a situation? If he can convince the attacking group that it is not in their best interest to attack he escapes. For instance, a strategy might be to indicate that the potential victim has a posse just out of sight which is just itching to come to his rescue. This is a lie, but survival trumps 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.' When fabrication is the product, it is cheap to use the very best. So the out of sight posse rapidly includes the local badass/champion/superman who lives in the village and is going to put serious hurt on the attackers if they don't back off.
I don't find it surprising that the Babylonian Emperor was considered a god. Actually, I expect that the concept of the God Emperor is the logical extension of the imaginary village badass in an environment of violence and incomplete military intelligence ( the attacking gang doesn't know the village badass doesn't exist) described above. Until the Abrahamic liars inflated YHWH into the omni-everything we think of as a GOD today, I think that the concepts of warrior god and ultimate village badass were interchangeable.
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So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
