Perchance

Hi sullster,

Do you think 'wack-o' theories for the causes of natural phenomena could have been formed because these earlier humans believed they actually saw something? I hadn't considered that they might have been cooked up from thin air. For example, legends of the unicorn have been (variously) traced to natural animals like rhinos and oryx. I had assumed that one reason that ancient people believed in gods was that they really believed they had experienced contact with some sort of divine being.

If stories like that can come from nothing but human psychology, then I agree that humans are a lot more wack-o than I thought.

-Perchance.