This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded

[packman]

12. I, too, am a non-believer and have little patience with religion

It's corrosive to progressive thought and manipulative in its message. We seem to agree 100% with that. HOWEVER, perhaps I misstated my intended point. Regardless of how we feel today about God, god-like entities, churches, evangelists, etc., my belief is that cave held special meaning to those early humans and they treated it with reverence akin to what some people treat holy sites today. I have always believed that religion began when the first con man met the first fool. But those early humans lived close to nature and probably saw a higher being or force in the animals they hunted and in the environment they lived in to survive and made an appeal to them on that cave's walls.

That "Sigh" was not meant on any personnel level. It's just I did not want to get into a back-and-forth with a fellow DUer. Sorry if it offended.