Why do humans feel the need to explain events using a God?
Say a group of people started raising humans within white, empty rooms, where there was no interaction with the outside other than to receive food from a slot in the wall (obviously after they had been carefully raised to be able to feed themselves). From this point on, scientists, much like “The Truman Show”, will constantly monitor them. Those people that grew up in the rooms would be completely isolated from the outside. They would never learn how to communicate with others, and never know what their kind looked like. Then, the group of people was suddenly conglomerated into one big white room. They would make feeble attempts to interact with each other, and eventually a VERY crude form of communication would develop.
Next, the people in the white box are released on a deserted tropical island with enough natural vegetation to survive (hopefully this group is cunning enough to learn how to find food). Fast forward a few generations on the island, and the people start to develop drawings where they attempt to describe things that they cannot explain, such as the sun, lightning, and other forces of nature.
Fast forward again, and the people have a rich language where they can describe events in depth. Then they develop the concept of a being greater than themselves that must have made all of these things happen.
I'm not going to take this further, because you can see where it is going.
Sounds like God, doesn't it.
The PEOPLE created their own idea of God, simply to understand events they could not describe.
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