Mad at God? Blame your tools.

In an interview at Salon.com, Lewis Wolpert author of "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast" has figured out where mankind got religion from, his or her tools.

What makes us different from all other animals is that we have causal beliefs about the physical world...My argument is that causal understanding gave rise to toolmaking; that was the evolutionary advantage. It's toolmaking that's really driven human evolution. This is not widely accepted, I'm afraid, but there's no question about it. It's tools that really made us human. They may even have given rise to language.

Tools gave rise to language? Wouldn't we need language to talk to one another about a problem and invent a tool for it? No, no, They invented the tool and then bragged to their buddies about it. gotcha....

I don't suppose you can learn cause and effect from nature at all, say, from rain. "Look, these wet things fall from the sky and wash my house away with all their wetness."

Mr. Wolpert goes on to say:

Our brains are absolutely hard-wired for causal belief. And I think they're a bit soft-wired for religious and mystical belief. Those people who had religious beliefs did better than those who did not, and they were selected for.*

* as in Natural selection.
In effect, Mr. Wolpert claims that those who have religious beliefs are favored by evolution, and dare I say it, more evolved? That would make Mr. Wolpert a monkey. no, no. His ideas are more evolved, but because they are so pessimistic, they don't catch on (and haven't for MILLIONS of years). Mr. Wolpert's ideas are right, but evolution-which is supposed to prove his ideas- fundamentally says he's wrong.

Anyways, I agree with the first part of this quote. We are hard-wired for causal belief, it's called a natural knowledge of God. We do what's wrong (cause), there is an effect (some guy upstairs is going to punish me). Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them. - Romans 2:14-15

Why is cause/effect hardwired in our brains? This is what Paul says
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, - Acts 17:26-27

Perhaps humankind would reach out for God. Perhaps they would find Him. Perhaps He will reveal to them true wisdom. How from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. - 2 Timothy 3:15 True wisdom has one source, and it ain't from biology.

Check out the Scriptures, you'll find your cause/effect, but you'll also find that a God who should carry out the effect on all, chooses instead to carry out the effect on Himself.

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