Rocks or Dirt (which came first?)

Rocks or Dirt!?!

This was a question posed one night around a campfire. We were young and Drunk, and with our girlfriends in West Virginia, at summit point raceway. But don't let this introduction fool you, this is a serious post.



Religion

Now I could begin here asking why did man adopt religion, but rather I'll ask what would become of man without it. Or better yet, where would Man be without religion, and I submit, he would still be a land ape foraging for his existence.



I'll add that the greater a religion is, the greater the civilisation that surrounds it, or embraces it.



But what is it so special about religion, why is religion so important? The first answer is that it teaches us how to live together, that it provides rules and regulations for behavior, or... morality.

But I submit that is just a product, that the real impact of religion was in the imagination and creative inspiration that separates Man from Beast. Because we are inspired, we look at our lives and activity differently, we perceive all that surrounds us in a new way. Before religion, we had no needs other than food and shelter, only now with religion we saw a future and a past, and many other things in-between.



Where am I going with this?

The best description would be in the book 2001 a space Odyssey.

It's the old story of the apple, where man chose a path that separated him from the beast. He accepted a God or Gods, or... the concept because that's the spark that set it all in motion.



Religion inspires us, and as necessity is the mother of invention, with religion we now had needs. With these new needs we acquired tools and methods, but the product of religion (morality), provided us the wisdom to use them, because among other things religion taught us "consequence". It's usually when knowledge outpaces wisdom that religion comes into play. As we learn about our world and how things work, religion always seems to hold us back, until it can find a way to provide the (rationalisation) wisdom for newly acquired knowledge .

In most cases, Religion acts like a governor between knowledge and wisdom. Religion is fighting an infinite war as it tries to keep pace with Science, and how God will fit in.

In reality it is us just trying to manage what we learn, and the wisdom necessary to use it.



Regardless of your belief or disbelief religion came before science and, and science owes its very existence to religion.



As for Rocks and Dirt?... My answer was that dirt is just little rocks. (Rocks came first)



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