The human mind is a pale reflection of the Creator.

[MineralMan]

96. I'm not sure that is apparent at all.

You claim it to be so, but records of human religious belief are very sketchy beyond a point in fairly recent history. There's a lot of speculation in your "apparent" information.

Now, it may be that humans have always needed something to explain what cannot be explained at a glance. It may be than humans have imagined some sort of supernatural force that lies behind what they do not understand. It may even be that they imagined deities of one sort or another to be behind all that.

However, none of that is evidence of there actually being such forces, deities or other causal entities. We do know that humans are capable of imagining things that are not present, though. So, it's easy to see how humans could have imagined their own deities to handle those explanations. Maybe that volcano has a god inside of it. Or that tree. I mean something makes the volcano spit lava and rocks. What could it be? Why does that tree grow? Maybe it has a god inside of it.

Who knows? I'm certain that I do not, and that you do not, either. You are willing and able to believe that some sort of supernatural entity exists without any evidence of that. I am neither able nor willing to believe that without evidence. That, Guillaume, is the essential difference between us.