I'll today be starting a new series on evolution.  The foci will include: Religion, a spiritual matter. Universe, probably next Sunday, for this too has spiritual implications. Humanity, same. Fire. Artificial Intelligence. There could be other topics. I've long thought about how religion first got started, and in my mind, how it came to be was that the equivalent of a cavemen/cavewomen community usually had some sort of leader.   How could this person maintain control?   One way was to have his subjects police themselves, so created was a supreme being who watched over you all the time.   These societies were provided an advantage that favored their dominance for survival.   I've also long felt that religion led to larger communities, and might have been essential for Humanity to arrive at where we are earlier than without. Of course, there is strong sentiment for God being the originator of religion.  I asked Google AI, how old i...

  We know there is life because we are alive.  We have seen deaths, and it is clear we won't live forever.  But this is my view.  Buddhists might disagree.  While I don't think there is any kind of afterlife, most religions promise or suggest that there is something after you die.  Aside for attempting to sway people into being better human beings, perhaps this final carrot at the end is why religion has done so well in the history of humanity.  Even if reality turns out to be my viewpoint, at least many religious-inclined individuals gain the benefit of some psychological relief about the coming inevitability. Hindu and Buddhism teach origins quite different from Islam and Christianity, but these two have rather similar beginnings because they developed in adjacent locales.  For Christians, in the beginning God created the heavens and Earth. Only on the fifth day did He bring forth life, in the seas and also flying creatures . Land animals and us...