Life has been on earth for some 3.7 billion years, with complex multicelluar life flourishing several hundred million years ago. The dinosaurs dominated the terrestrial landscape for some 160 million years before becoming extinct, 65 million years prior to humans. The earliest human predecessors arrive at a mere half-second tick of the geological clock- only a few million years ago.
During all of this time before humans arrived, there was no religion. There were no gods, no ghosts, no creation myths, no doomsday predictions, no miracles, no angels, no demons, no 'spiritual warfare', no psychics, no astrology, no heaven and no hell. Why? Because it required a self-aware species with the ability to imagine abstractly to invent all of these things.
If one day, after our few ticks on the geological clock pass, another species evolves here or elsewhere; will they take the same shortcut to understanding that our species has, belief?
2007-02-27 19:05:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That... is a very good question. one that would take me a while to come up with a few paragraphs in reply.
i think the only way to know that would be to disect how our belif's came about in the first place. did it start out as a story told around a campfire or in chinese whispers down the generations and as it went along the line things got added or morphed into something bigger?
if you think about it. waay back in caveman times or even aboriginal times, every 'tribe' or clan believed in some sort of spiritual thing. the Aboriginies believed in many gods who brought rain and food but mostly they believed in nature, they read the signs and adapted to it.
the more spiritual clans believed that certain animals were 'gods' or special creatures to be worshiped. Egyptions for instance held cats on a high pedestal while the Greeks held the 'Eagle of Zues' as a superhuman animal.
so id say that in the future when were wiped out by a giant asteroid or the nubonic (sp?) plague and some other species takes our place, my bet would be that they would take the same path.
2007-02-27 19:20:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, things like gods, angels, demons, spirits, non-material realms didn't exist because sentient beings had not yet developed sufficiently to notice them? If a tree falls in a forest, and noone is there to hear it, will it make a noise? I think all that stuff was there before we even noticed it and it did influence the development of our planet's, and our, development.
2007-02-27 19:14:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All religion is man made and was in fact manufactured by men with the intent of manipulating other men.
2007-02-27 19:12:41 · answer #3 · answered by blogbaba 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
SORRY TO SAY BUT NOT BILLION 6 THOUSAND AND TIME IS ABOUT TO RUN OUT EVOLVE ANOTHER SPECIES NOW THAT IS FUNNY // SEE ALL THAT KNOWLEDGE AND STILL DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS
2007-02-27 19:11:27 · answer #4 · answered by THE WAR WRENCH 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Great Question.
In short, yes! Efficiency is not a shortcut.
2007-02-27 19:13:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wonder why evolutionists are not aware that they are religious?
2007-02-27 19:09:41 · answer #6 · answered by Flaco 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋