They spawned from times when we didn't understand anything, and religion was an attempt to explain the things around us that we did not understand at the time.
@ioerr: Yes, science by todays standards limits itself to empirical evidence (which is a good thing), but that is why I said "failed" science. The same rules wouldn't necessarily have had to of applied at those times. Like trying to explain lightning, and saying it was a God because that was their explanation for the phenomena of their environment.
@ioerr: Yes, science by todays standards limits itself to empirical evidence (which is a good thing), but that is why I said "failed" science. The same rules wouldn't necessarily have had to of applied at those times. Like trying to explain lightning, and saying it was a God because that was their explanation for the phenomena of their environment.