Religion
In reply to the discussion: Why Science Can’t Replace Religion [View all]brewens
(13,584 posts)way of trying to make sense of things. I've always kind of known this but never have put it all together really. I haven't read all that much about it either.
Before people had the time to have progressed to the point of understanding weather, geology or any other science, what were the supposed to think? Everything that happened in their lives seemingly was caused by the sky, the ground, other people or animals. Why not a really powerful man or beast in the sky somehow making things happen?
All the explanations and rules they came up with in their religions also served as the earliest form of law. Some identical to what we live by now because they worked. Following that was better than having the toughest guy take over and run things his way, and then starting all over when he was knocked off.
I can see how spirituality would somehow be wired into us through evolution because it worked so well. That still wouldn't make any of the beliefs people came up with true.