GOD: A marvel of human

Imagine the pathetic situations our prehistoric Neanderthal ancestor must have been through; one day he is running away from the fiery forest fire, trying to save his ass and the other day he is crouching beneath a small cave just to keep himself dry and away from a thunderstorm. His heart pounding hard and his mind wishing a quick end to those unknown natural, supernatural for him, phenomenons. After few such encounters with nature, he must have been overwhelmed by indignation and dying to curse the reason behind such an unjustified situation. But Alas! unlike us, he doesn't have any word or language to use. Probably humankind's first words were meant to curse that unknown reason behind those super-natural activities.

However, human is a die-hard organism, it not only survived the ferocious and looming carnivores and the killing natural phenomenons, it also evolved rapidly. It evolved so much that now it controls the whole world. Probably, the evolution of human mind was more significant than the evolution of its physical traits. Human mind is very self centric and intelligent, as it always tries to keep it self away from any trouble so that the gene pool continues to exist and reproduce. Humankind moved from hunter-gatherer to agricultural mode cutting down on risky activities, guaranteeing better nutrition and minimizing risk. But again, it has to bear the adversaries of nature such as draughts and heavy rainfall. However, human brain got more intelligent, it recognized the power of nature and understood, or rather misunderstood, it as God, hence all the nature's powerful entities like the Sun, the Rain( even animals) were given the status of God. Anything which was more powerful than human and, more importantly, which was not controllable was certified pious( One who knows Hinduism can understand it better, almost all species are listed sacred) . Early civilizations like Mayans, Harappas, Aztecs had the Sun and the phenomenon rain elevated to the status of God, they worshiped, offered sacrifices to please them to ensure their civilization's existence; doing so made them happy and feel secure, it was like creating your own world in which you had all control. As the human society evolved and hence got more complicated, the concept and need of God, to keep it binding, also evolved. This gave rise to different religions and followings. Christianity, Hinduism, Islam , to name a few, are the religions which are thousands of years old and have billions of followers. And, perhaps during this period only our human race saw the most rapid growth - both from sociological and science and technological front. During this period as human being refined its knowledge about nature and its surrounding, it also kept on modifying the definition of religion and God. Few months back Vatican included a new bullet in its list of sinful behaviour: Thou shall not pollute the Earth. This shows the adaptive nature of human mind, adaptations to help its race sustain; adaptation to ensure longevity. Arguably, humankind's belief in God and Religion was one of most important and critical reason for its success and development as an species, without which our society and race must have perished under the its own weight of development and progress; and this will continue. But one ponders how long is it going to continue this way; may be, till the need of god is understood as redundant.

Now after pondering a lot on these things, I have started to believe that considering human being a creation of God is nothing but fallacy; it's other way round. It's human being who created God; it us who unconsciously created religion and god, during the course of evolution, to ensure survivability. Now as time moves on, we are going to tailor this as per our need, as per our requirement. Who knows, after few decades, we might be producing genetically modified children, who can go on without food for days and subsequently prompting Vatican to remove Gluttony from the sins list. It's the theism which is changing but atheism is where it was.