(July 1, 2016 at 4:26 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(July 1, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: One quibble, Brian. It is how they evolve. A bunch of Midianite tribesmen worshiping the volcano god, yah, in the Sinai could easily create a site-specific religion which would meet their needs. But then, other ideas creep in and you end up with the fucking bible.
Ok, "evolve", but the video is pointing to our species early pattern seeking and that is where they all really stem from, worship of nature and animals and seasons changing.
If you do enough study of worldwide religions in our species history you can see even without direct connections the same false perceptions being created simply with different details. Even independently things like worship of constellations and fear of comets.
The 13 part COSMOS series hosted by Neil makes those parallels as well.
That's one thing. It's another to argue that, therefore, that some story was a blatant copy of a prior one. You'd have to provide specific evidence for such. It also doesn't help that numerology happens to be part of the OP video argument. I get peeved when Christians and Muslims do numerology with their books to make certain arguments. Why should I all of a sudden feel differently when atheists do so?
