I find it odd how people jump to conclusions about the theory of evolution.

They often just see 2 sides. God or evolution. It could be a different theory to explain life. Personally there are way too many gaps about the theory of evolution. Even the scientific community is torn. Random is not systematic. We will probably never know. But as the molecular world is revealed like DNA, its complexity makes believing it is all random becomes hard to believe. [quote]In particular, concepts related to gradualism, speciation, natural selection, and extrapolating macroevolutionary trends from microevolutionary trends have been challenged. [/quote]

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Diotrephes · 70-79, M

So, where did the God character come from? He came from superstitous people's minds.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@Diotrephes That's perhaps one for the neuropsychologists.

Possibly the human brain is predisposed towards convenient fictions as a way to calm and reassure itself in the face of a frightening universe.
I mean, until recent times we didn't know where the Sun went at night!

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Diotrephes Religions have come and gone the world over since time immemorial.

The Hebrew god called "God" is but one of many. It seems an innate feature of the human mind to want some sort of spiritual dimension in life; and to invent religions around it.

Superstitious? Maybe, but a desire so deeply rooted it is almost instinctive and it seems only quite recently, historically, that many people have decided they do not have or need such a desire.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@ArishMell There really isn't any difference in believing in the God character and believing in the genie in the magic lamp.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@ArishMell Yup, it's remarkably easy to induce superstitious behaviour in any species with a central nervous system. It seems that humans use symbols to develop such behaviour into rituals (although that's not my field).

Axeroberts · 56-60, M

@newjaninev2 funny to even think that the human brain is somehow predisposed to that specifically. Why not predisposed to wanting to be a fish. Or aliens. Why would the idea of a Creator even be a predisposition 🤔

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@Axeroberts In the face of ignorance and fear, and a predisposition to superstitious behaviour (and this is across many, many, species), humans just quite simply fall back on convenient fictions.

It might well be comforting to invent a 'super-parent' who watches over us and has the control over the universe we realise we lack. Of course, such a fiction explains nothing (not even itself)... it merely tries to explain anything away.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@newjaninev2 [quote]Possibly the human brain is predisposed towards convenient fictions as a way to calm and reassure itself in the face of a frightening universe.
I mean, until recent times we didn't know where the Sun went at night![/quote]

It's been reported on good authority that the Sun goes into a muddy spring at night.

Surah 18:86 =https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/18/86/#:~:text=Ayah%20al-Kahf%20(The%20Cave)%2018%3A86&text=%5BAnd%20he%20marched%20westwards%5D%20till,O%20thou%20Two-Horned%20One!

Axeroberts · 56-60, M

@newjaninev2 if my vision of God was like yours I would not believe either.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@Axeroberts I don't have a vision of your god, or any other, come to that.

Such postulations about magical entities are unnecessary

Axeroberts · 56-60, M

@newjaninev2 that's what I mean