Quote: I simply said that the overwhelming evidence suggests that humans seem to feel that some explanation is needed for where they came from and where they are going and who and what they are now.
And said another way, it brings back memories of my grandfathers comments on his
comrades. Hed say often that "All my friends are dropping dead"
The difference today is that we can now say why.
Most often, We create the technology, then we apply it. All that we have in fossils started out as mere quarry pickings from cement and gravel pits. Our great great grand engineers were building a road and from their gravel pit they found "Homo deluvii testis" Good enough for the !7th century Germans, but, later, as we discovered how to predict where we could find similar quality cement rock, we applied science and found more "Homey..." Then we needed to revise the stories because evidence doesnt support first conclusions.
Evidence does clearly show that we created Gods and religious ritual somewhere about 25 to 30000 years ago (This was based upon a critical observation of how the dead were treated before and after that rough timeline)
Myths of origins and gods were developed and (most importantly for good crowd control) we needed devils
"Gods arent necessary to maintain order in a civilization but devils are" --I forget who said that