"Reginald K writes:
Stephen Barr says (I think in Modern Physics, Ancient Faith) that there’s little anthropological evidence that gods were originally posited as explanations for natural phenomena that couldn’t otherwise be explained, and that in the last couple of millennia, where we have better evidence, it shows the opposite: Religious natural philosophers/scientists were typically inclined to first reach for natural reasons for unexplained phenomena instead of immediately claiming God did it."
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