On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:26:13 -0500, Norm Skrzypinski <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>You've only to see those cave paintings at
>Lascaux
>> or Altimira to know that humans have always been spiritual.
>
>I've always been troubled by the word "spiritual".  To me, "spiritual"
>means
>faith -- belief without knowledge.  If you don't know the answer,
>then just make it up.
>
>I can't accept that.  I can live with question marks.

Perhaps it is better to say that our paleolithic ancestors' developed
mental models in dealing with their world involving what we would call
animism, with some usefulness. We have different models now which are
more useful.

Philip Thrift
http://www.paleofitness.com