Mitchel thanks for your reply.

Maybe I misinterpreted, apologies if so.

Function in this context, looks at first glance, like the usual attempts to pass off religion as some kind of crutch, used by people.

I meant maybe religions exist for good reason, we might know more if that question was really asked, and investigated.

If science studied it objectively (not for profit), mapping it out against other things we already know scientifically, like the inevitability that we are not the only intelligent species in the universe, and similarly that we are probably not at the top end of the intelligence chain, there might be a perfectly logical, if fantastic explanation for all of it, including even an underlying reason for our genetic / variations.

A very interesting question, that I can think of at least one logical answer to, is why Egyptian pharoes and descendents were so keen on incestuous marriage, and why we don’t take the paintings of historical Egyptian creatures like Horus literally, yet we take our ancient books of religious riddle literally.

What if the Egyptians actually had ancient genetic engineering technology, borrowed or stolen if not created by themselves, what would that mean, logically, for us, apart from maybe by that they might have been impersonating god?

Personally I believe the things we inherited in the form of words, both spoken and written, were intended to be taken literally, until we could evolve sufficient intelligence to see the real meaning of them as riddles.

An obvious problem we have is profit. Most religions warn against it, but we can ignore the rules set out if we just throw out religion, like we were also warned against, making up our own rules independently, in effect projecting ourselves as god, which of course we were warned about.

Perhaps we are just not intelligent enough yet as a species, to be trying to make up our own rules independently.

Pethaps we are an infant species, descended from the things we think of as God.

Perhaps that is the answer to “Our father”, as a riddle.

Perhaps we might find we are a product of both evolution, and creation.

Nothing seems to evolve faster than human intelligence, it appears to be something exponential.

Perhaps the definition of an adult species is that our intelligence reaches the point where we become what we previously knew as gods.

Seems a lot less crazy than the big bang theory to me!