User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/The Inapposite and Superfluous Philosophical Enigmas of Jeremiah Garland/@comment-7097825-20130606052644/@comment-3112181-20130607034513

Humans invented the idea of religion. Whether a God actually exists or not is a whole different conversation for another comment thread (or not). When the first humans walked the earth about 200,000 years ago (I'm using that number instead of the mere 12,000 years ago mentioned in the creationism theory), they weren't simply presented with the idea of religion. They developed acute and intellectual minds, and invented the explanation of religion, to answer all of the questions that modern science answers today.