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  • TimB replied to the topic Evolution of Religion in the forum Religion and Secularism 5 years, 3 months ago

    We humans are built (by evolutionary processes) to perceive patterns. We are also exceptional at creating explanatory narratives.  Sometimes we might come up with an explanatory idea like “God is the creator and is the source of everything”  then we can come up with rationale to support that idea, that “God did it.”  (As you have done in your last post.)  So to you “Everything looks as if it proceeded from a precise formula from an all-knowing mind.”

    While to me, based on what I know of the processes of the cosmos, physical laws, and evolutionary processes (and what I have perceived of the fallacies of religions over many decades) everything looks as if  proceeded in accordance with physical laws (no human invention of the concept of an “all knowing mind” is necessary).