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Originally Posted by Darkland
Might want to check your numbers on that, lol.
"100k years after we could write/read" - Considering that the earliest know written text (on stone from mesopotamia now modern day Iraq) only dates back to between 4 to 3000 BC this is way off mark. Also for most of our history except maybe for the last couple centuries the majority of the world populace was illiterate.
"10,000's of years after logical thought, invention, ect kicked in" - Your joking right? I don't think our so called logical thought has improved that much. Look at the world around us and tell me where the logic is. If we were a logical species we would be living in a much better world than we are now and those who say the worlds just fine doesn't have the first clue what's going on beyond the boundaries of their own self centered universe.
The only true fact in this age old debate is this:
There is no imperical proof that a God does or does not exist. The only thing that divides the two camps is actually the same thing. Personal Belief. And belief, by any definition of the word, can NOT be called fact with out ironclad proof.  |
Just because the first known "written text" was Cuneiform, it doesn't mean that's the first written or drawn information is only 3-4k years old. Our brains could process the information well before 3-4k years ago. 10k years ago, we would have lived where the ocean is now as the majority of the planet was covered in ice, we aren't exactly sure if did read and write, but it's clear our brains could do it, and we knew how to survive.
Last time I checked we couldn't align ourselves with the magnetic polls of earth, without some computer crap to tell us how... yet 4k years ago we could, so what is logical thinking, really?
Logical thinking, has to do with care, love, fear, building shelter, dealing with death correctly, ect. We aren't all the same either. We are very logical, your understanding of it is todays standard, not real world life where a person has to survive.
I didn't bring God into this, I'm sure something creates and takes life, call it god if you wish. I don't think the stories are real, at any level. They are written by humans, modified over time by humans, taken from other stories written/passed down by humans, and used to control people by using fear and hate for others - all the while preaching god loves you only to its followers of that belief.
And today, if you say you speak to god, start writing books, getting followers. you get a drug test and tossed into a nut house or you run a cult and the fbi will burn your house down.