French-British anthropologist Maurice Bloch believes that humans alone practice religion because they’re the only creatures to have evolved imagination. The development of imagination occurred at the time of the Upper Palaeolithic ‘revolution’ 40-50,000 years ago. (Which Existed First: God or the Human Imagination?)
French-British anthropologist Maurice Bloch believes that humans alone practice religion because they’re the only creatures to have evolved imagination. The development of imagination occurred at the time of the Upper Palaeolithic ‘revolution’ 40-50,000 years ago. (Which Existed First: God or the Human Imagination?)