Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief
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The Battle of the Gods
Nobody knows exactly how religion evolved, but people think it went something like this. For tens of thousands of years, humans were hunter gatherers. They probably had some kind of animistic beliefs. Then in just a few thousand years, everything changed. People built bigger settlements and the big gods arrived. The mystery is, why? Where did those big gods come from? And, for that matter, why are they still here? Psychologist ara nor and zion has a theory. He says any explanation of religion has to answer two major puzzles.
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