Mr Walker, on 22 February 2012 - 07:24 AM, said:
That is your problem of disbelief getting n the raod of the facts. I believe the scientists, who said they worked with very young chidren, including those who had never been introduced to the concepet of god These were nt religious peole but modern scientists in a range of disciplines and countries. It really isnt that hard to find such children today.
Where did I say that the scientists themselves were religious? Just because the children were very young, that doesn't indicate that they weren't exposed to the concept of a god.
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I disagree with this, historically. Again, i think you are allowing you rdesire to eliminate religion as a natural humnan force influence your thinking. The human brain is no differnt today from 100000 years ago. Modern "cave men" create deities including those of animism and natural forces. So, given, the same environments and brain function, so too would have people, such as cromagnon and neandertal people. As soon as one recognises the spiritual "nature" in thought patterns, of the human mind, it is obvious that once a huma level mind evolves it begins creating deities. The earliest temples and writings, going back more than 10000 years illustrate this.
Those illustrations don't necessarily indicate a god. It can indicate a sense of spiritualism, correct; but it doesn't indicate the concept of a god.
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Well of course it does and I accept it as scientific truth. HOWEVER, humans will one day be able to crete and populate planets. Not really too far in the future. That reality opens my mind to other possibilities as well. What we can do others can certainly also accomplish.
Yes, it is very far into the future. We are nowhere near this possibility now.
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A sense of spiritualism involving nature DOES include deities. They began with the circle of the earth and the sky represented i very early carved forms of "jewellery" and totems, progressed to the moon and sun, and then split up into animist and other deities. Much later they took human form in peole's minds and finally were established a a monotheistic personal god by the "people of the dust" or hebrew people about 5000 years ago. The cave paintings of lascaux etc., the hunting ceremonies of cromagnon people, the burial practices of neandertal and cromagnon people among other archaeologicla evidences illustrate the thought processes of those people Such thought processes included a recognition and worship of many forms of "the divine" Those forms of the divine are deities, albeit not quite like the modern deity of god as sen by christians.
This is an assumption. It doesn't indicate the existence of a deity at all...