Quote Originally Posted by fetishdj View Post
Its sort of the backwards interpolation of Clark's law - sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. For primative man, everything was a mystery - the stars, gravity, fire, climate, weather - and so everything needed to be explained by a god. As we learnt more, as we ate the apple of the tree of knowledge and so lost our innocent naivity, we learn that there are more and more things that god is not a part of.
Good points, dj. It's long been my contention that, as man's quest for knowledge has progressed, his need for the supernatural explanations of our ancestors has diminished. It is now primarily through religion that these superstitions are perpetuated, and while they still have some grip upon man's psyche, they are gradually losing there hold. And one of the few advantages of political correctness is that it's no longer fashionable (in this country, at least) to persecute those who don't believe the way the churches tell them to.