Re: OP, which I'm not about to quote since I'm sure we don't need to see it yet again:
Suppose that tomorrow, some cataclysm wiped out all our knowledge, all our history, all our discoveries and put the human race back to the level of our cave-dwelling ancestors (which they never did but set that aside). In time, it might be possible to rediscover all the major scientific milestones - fire, the wheel, metalworking, physics, astronomy, mathematics, telescopy, microscopy, evolution and so on. We will likely go in a different direction to previously in many ways, but fundamentally all those discoveries would be there waiting for us.
All the gods ever imagined would be gone forever.
Suppose that tomorrow, some cataclysm wiped out all our knowledge, all our history, all our discoveries and put the human race back to the level of our cave-dwelling ancestors (which they never did but set that aside). In time, it might be possible to rediscover all the major scientific milestones - fire, the wheel, metalworking, physics, astronomy, mathematics, telescopy, microscopy, evolution and so on. We will likely go in a different direction to previously in many ways, but fundamentally all those discoveries would be there waiting for us.
All the gods ever imagined would be gone forever.
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.'
