This is known as the God of The Gaps fallacy. Early people knew very little about science so in order to explain things they couldn't understand they used stories about Gods or supernatural forces to explain something.
As more mundane explanations come about the need for Gods disappears. Most humans living in the 21st century know that the Earth revolves around the sun and this brings night and that thunder and lightning are caused by hot and cold air meeting.
But people in the Hellenistic era believed that the god Helios pulled the sun across the sky with his chariot. Ancient Norse people believed that thunder and lightning were caused by Thor's hammer. As science evolved eventually there was no more need for Helios and Thor as an explanation. The gap had been closed.
2006-10-17 19:53:24
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answered by Anonymous
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The concept of God...or a higher power seems to be universal in all cultures. Even if God or gods do not exist in a culture...witchcraft and the supernatural do. I suppose it's a realization of an X-factor...an acknowledgement of things that happen because they happen...with no easy explanation. It seems rather convincing that there's something out there, and perhaps as people, we need to believe that there's more that we don't understand out there. If you define God as the "magic" behind everything...our beginning, our existence, and all the processes that are...then yes, I believe there is some sort of being or energy that we don't comprehend and that can be interpreted as God or whatever you like.
2006-10-17 09:41:29
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answered by Shaun 4
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that's a fact that primitive guy (and an excellent style of cutting-element human beings) believed (have confidence) that guy himself can administration, between different issues, nature. that's what we call magic, of course. this is been stated that as quickly as specially instances and places, human beings got here to realize that guy ought to no longer, in fact, administration something via magic, that, relatively than relinquish the thought that there became some being on top of issues, human beings imagined the existence of what are relatively a type of super human beings- gods. this might clarify why gods are perpetually on top of problems with issues that human beings as quickly as concept (and as I suggested, some nevertheless have confidence they are able to) they might administration or impression via magic, such because of the fact the climate- and the human soul. that's one concept. i've got no longer in any respect rather examine any others, yet i'm able to think of of a few possibilities myself. One is that it ought to boost out of animism- the thought that each and every thing, including inanimate products, have souls. It would not be a a procedures step from there to believing that some products have been gods with powers based upon the features, genuine or imagined, of the article. yet another may well be that it ought to boost out of hero worship. comprehend that faith isn't necessary for human beings to have confidence in spirits. So, the super hero's spirit lives on after his demise, and from there it is likewise no longer lots of a step to his spirit being noted as on after his demise and not lots of a step from there to his being a god. you notice that surely occurring between the Greeks, yet they already have been theists at that element, in spite of the indisputable fact that this is in all probability sufficient that this additionally handed off of their prehistory. in case you investigate anthropomorphic gods ordinarily, this is glaring that they are in accordance with surely human varieties, or maybe the supposedly non-anthropomorphic Abrahamic "God" is clearly a disembodied human character. Gods ordinarily have been created in guy's image- the glaring indication that guy created them for a human purpose; to forward the thought that "guy is the degree of all issues."
2016-12-16 09:16:33
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answered by mays 4
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way back in the days of the cavemen, survival was a daily task. they were frightened and challenged by extreme weather and ferocious creatures. to make some sense out of this "gods" were created.
where ever people lived the ''gods" were different but had their similarities. then the concept of "one god" was thought up by Moses & the Israelites.
as man became more civilized, he found ways to exploit the "god concept" threatened with "hell" men would pay "repartations" to the clergy to "buy forgiveness for their sins" If the church was challenged in any way -- others were labeled heretics or witches, hence the "Inquision"
And that is my opinion and documented historical facts.
2006-10-17 09:36:43
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answered by please remove me from here 4
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you are - for without him you would not be here-the world was created by him. yes he exists. he lives in our hearts and he is the air that we breath, look around you and you can see the things he has made, and man could never do.
2006-10-17 14:13:49
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answered by janieloveday 2
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