Is it in human nature to say that anything that we can't explain has to have a supernatural origin.When people didn't understand thunder and lighting they gave it a supernatural explanation saying that it was the gods,when we didn't understand floods we said it was god,the sun use to be god,the moon use to be god,the stars were gods,everything that we couldn't figure out was labeled as the work of the gods.We keep saying it until we finally find out what causes these things.
Is this just human nature to explain the currently unexplainable as god,gods,or the work of god instead of saying that we don't know and trying to find out what it is?
2007-12-16 10:36:59 · 12 answers · asked by upside 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-12-17 03:26:38 · answer #1 · answered by joshbl74 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People used to attribute things that were bigger than they were as being a "god", or something worthy of worship. When something bad happened which they had no control over, and there was no reasonable explanation, they attributed it to their "gods". Mind you, these things never claimed to be anything but what they were, people attributed that to them. Eventually we found that most of those events have natural causes.
2007-12-16 18:44:46 · answer #2 · answered by pinbacking 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is some humans' nature. Others dare to search for the truth. Otherwise we still wouldn't have explanations for any of that stuff.
2007-12-16 18:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by wyrdrose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But it's NOT human nature to blatantly ignore evidence to the contrary of your supernatural beliefs when it arises.
2007-12-16 18:40:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say I don't know all the time...
By the way, that's the God of the Gaps view. The gaps get fewer and far between all the time, don't they?
2007-12-16 18:44:30 · answer #5 · answered by the_way_of_the_turtle 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, on this forum you don't get best answer for saying "I don't know" but often it's the better part of wisdom to say it in real life.
2007-12-16 18:48:16 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We CAN say we don't know.
It's called Agnosticism, and it's a great way to be.
2007-12-16 18:41:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Much the same as when people don't know where our species originated they say it must be from monkeys.
2007-12-16 18:41:18 · answer #8 · answered by flinginfeces 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
my guess is that we are make things up so that we can say we have the answer.
2007-12-16 18:45:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know
It must be God.
2007-12-16 18:43:33 · answer #10 · answered by James L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋