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Michael Harney wrote:
>
> (...) Theism has existed since prehistoric
>times, and there is even some evidence that some animals too might have
>beliefs about deities and even afterlife.
>
What are those evidences?
>No solid evidence of course about
>the animal think about deities, because it is impossible to ask what the
>animal is thinking.
>
This is not exactly true, because some Apes can communicate
ideas to Man. But of course these Apes would ape the religion
they were told, having been raised by Men :-)
Alberto Monteiro
Well, I don't have time to go into details, because first I would have to
prove that they a rudimentary form of communication capable of describing
concepts such as "God" (actually a relatively easy task), then I would have
to prove that they are not just capable of such, but actually do it (a very
difficult task), then I would have to prove that this somehow effects their
behavior (an extremely difficult task). I don't have the time to run through
a debate like that, especially because I don't have enough materials on hand
to do such a thing.
Really, it wasn't important to the discussion, so please forget that I said
it. Thousands of tribal groups of humans have not developed technology,
though have religious beliefs, beliefs that they have held for millennia now.
I think things that happened to Socrates, Copernicus, and Galileo prove that
religion is the enemy of scientific development, not the nurturer of it.
Michael Harney
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