> Alexandra echos this biblical truism. "then philosophy pre-dates the sciences, however. In the beginning there was religion (and appeals to the gods)"

>Please consider religion as a "flocking thing" and no more: words reinforce ancient survival systems. My reference was not to human evolution but to that of life: action preceeds thought in our emergence in the old days and now both in utero and infancy...

Ah. I take your point and revise my comment thus:

In the beginning of our attempt to explain / make sense of the world there was religion (and appeals to the gods)...