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=> why primitive people thought there were gods...or a god.

why primitive people thought there were gods...or a god.

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, December 5 2011, 1:16:05 (UTC)
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...before early humans began making things themselves, I don't think they invented gods....not until then, until they saw themselves making knives and axes and nets and houses did they begin to think in terms of someone making something...that things can't exist by themselves...so quite logically, for them, they thought someone must have made the mountain and the tree, the rives and even them.

..that's reflected in the favorite sillyism of the creationists when they bring up the watch in the forest and the watchmaker....here again, all these hundreds of years later, we see that still primitive urge to ascribe a maker to the object made.

...sure, things get made, they are built...but not by any process we yet understand completely...no "god" makes them...they make themselves, in a sense...atoms and molecules and whatever might yet remain unknown to us, make themselves. Don't ask me how and I won't bring up Adam and Eve and whether or not they had belly-buttons.

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