Dem Bones: I'll bite
People naturally
make stuff up to explain the unknown. The fact that no two groups of
people,
primitive or "
advanced", have
discreetly founded the exact same
religion is proof that
the explanations are indeed "made up", and not an
epiphany from above.
Then you must take into account
science. Scientific research finds explanations based on logic to replace "made up" beliefs.
Scientific research isn't always right either. We may have
no perfectly accurate scientific explanations, but they are
closer to the truth than the ideas they replaced. It provides enough foundation to continue further research, which will eventually replace its own foundation with even more accurate observations.
The problem is that few humans are willing to reform their beliefs. They're indoctrinated with "made up" religion from youth, and spend their lives executing
Galileo and
Copernicus because their supportable discoveries disagree with
dogma.
That, my friend, is why
everyone is mortal. With every
generation the latest
scientific observations take
root, further displacing the last generation's "made up" crap.
While we have yet to stand on a firmly "
logical" base, I think this trend will continue forever, with each new generation treating the last generation's "made up" crap as being based more on beliefs than logic, whether that last generation was profusing what we now refer to as
religion or to
science that has since been
disproved.
This is a good thing. I know I will become
stagnant in my
old age. My death will be necessary to allow new ideas to
flourish.
I am yet young and able to smile about my own
mortality.