• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honest need to understand, sure. Best they could do at the time? Maybe so.

    But honest attempt to understand? I don’t really see the attempt. I see people inserting arbitrary explanations.

    aka making shit up.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, by now it’s all made up BS, but that’s because you’re waaay at present day, not hearing the first stories of creation from early humans.

      Sure, they undoubtedly had no solid scientific explanations, but I bet the intuitions would be very interesting none the less. Kinda’ like Egypt and the pyramids. People assume earlier humans were dumber, when in all reality, they had to be much smarter than us (imagine the average human today. Not smart) just to survive. The intuitions of the brightest would surely have something fun in there.

      Mind, I wouldn’t be calling those words the word of any god…