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<blockquote data-quote="Jabberwock1" data-source="post: 2381953" data-attributes="member: 806127">Yep!In the long scale of things, we are still in the transition from an era when we were unable to accurately figure out nature, so jumping to conclusions was the norm, to an era when we can be more objective and intellectually honest.One of our strengths is to extrapolate where we have no information i.e. make an educated guess.&nbsp; However, part of that is to presume sentience when there is none e.g. our ancestors would see a volcano and presume it &quot;angry&quot; or &quot;sleepy&quot;.&nbsp; That was still useful or them, as they would flee an angry volcano, but it still wasn&#039;t accurate.&nbsp; So the incorrectly presumed volcano gods, as well as all sots of other gods, and that legacy is still with us.We live in a technological age of reason where we are able to explore nature, and also intellectually avoid jumping to conclusions.&nbsp; We can still extrapolate and guess, but we are now honest that that IS just a guess until we can actually get sufficient evidence to tell us for sure.However, society often lags behind our abilities, and so there is still a strong historical momentum of believing earlier jumped-to conclusions, and simply rejecting better knowledge.&nbsp; Thankfully it&#039;s declining, but still has some way to go.&nbsp; Because of social indoctrination it means that most religious parents will indoctrinate their kids, and so it tends to be successive generations of adolescents that don&#039;t buy it.&nbsp; In some societies, these unbelievers are now the majority, so religion is in an advanced state of decline.&nbsp; It will happen everywhere eventually.So it&#039;s not any innate nature of our species (e.g. homo sapiens is still homo sapiens), it&#039;s just our social / intellectual level at any one time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jabberwock1, post: 2381953, member: 806127"] Yep! In the long scale of things, we are still in the transition from an era when we were unable to accurately figure out nature, so jumping to conclusions was the norm, to an era when we can be more objective and intellectually honest. One of our strengths is to extrapolate where we have no information i.e. make an educated guess. However, part of that is to presume sentience when there is none e.g. our ancestors would see a volcano and presume it "angry" or "sleepy". That was still useful or them, as they would flee an angry volcano, but it still wasn't accurate. So the incorrectly presumed volcano gods, as well as all sots of other gods, and that legacy is still with us. We live in a technological age of reason where we are able to explore nature, and also intellectually avoid jumping to conclusions. We can still extrapolate and guess, but we are now honest that that IS just a guess until we can actually get sufficient evidence to tell us for sure. However, society often lags behind our abilities, and so there is still a strong historical momentum of believing earlier jumped-to conclusions, and simply rejecting better knowledge. Thankfully it's declining, but still has some way to go. Because of social indoctrination it means that most religious parents will indoctrinate their kids, and so it tends to be successive generations of adolescents that don't buy it. In some societies, these unbelievers are now the majority, so religion is in an advanced state of decline. It will happen everywhere eventually. So it's not any innate nature of our species (e.g. homo sapiens is still homo sapiens), it's just our social / intellectual level at any one time. [/QUOTE]

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