Jay520 on 20 December 2012
| pokoko said: Religion requires high level communication skills and the ability to understand (and disseminate) logically consistent abstract thought. We know that dolphins, as an example, meet both those criteria, but we don't really know what they're communicating to one another. They might be praying aloud that these humanoid demon things will one day be washed into a watery hell by the Great Ocean God. Their lifestyle is obviously very different than ours, however, so they might not make the same kind of associations that our ancestors did in terms of personifying natural events. |
Yup. That's it right there. Have we observed any animals capable of abstract thought? And can anyone of them actually communicate such thoughts to other species? They aren't capable of forming anything close to religion.
