Though there isn’t a doubt that faith has been the device of the con man (and the tyrant) because the early days of humankind, I doubt that Mark Twain meant this as a critical assertion.
It appears way more seemingly that when Homo sapiens got here alongside someplace round 100,000 years in the past, together with his huge, not too long ago developed mind, he started to pose necessary questions like: How did all these things get right here? What causes day and evening and the handfuls of different options of our world that at the moment are referred to collectively as astronomy? Why do unhealthy issues occur to good individuals, and vice-versa? What causes sickness? What occurs to us after we die?
The thought of an omnipotent God, or maybe quite a few them, appeared on the time to be the very best clarification. However about 2500 years in the past there arose a stirring in our species that maybe we would start to determine these things out by learning it and making use of motive to it.
Aristotle informed his pupils to design and use experiments, and the scientific technique was born. Ever since, we’ve been chipping away on the vastness of our ignorance of pure phenomena.
