Evolution theory supports ‘Manifestations of God’

A while ago, I proposed that increased ancestoral awareness and a paralysing fear of death was alleviated by the appearance of one person who was able to elevate the concept of death into everlasting life.  Norman Doige’, in his book, The Brain that Changes Itself”, has referenced S. Mithen’s hypothesis that around 50,000 years ago human beings discovered they could link circuits in the brain between previously seperated modules related to social, technical and nature intelligence. Doige argued, “perhaps by accident”. I suggest that, if Mithen’s hypothesis is correct, then, as with racial development theory, there was probably one individual born with some new links between modules. This individual would have shown powerful new insights (relative to the others). He / She would have become a leader in the clan, and had many children, many likewise favoured. This person would have been the equivalent to what, in the Baha’i Faith, we call ‘Manifestations of God”. They would have taught their new insights, probably by direct example – art, burial rites, make a spear – and showed people how to stretch themselves to do these ‘wonders’ and build new circuits.  Maybe every 10,000 generations, that was old hat, perhaps developing a new ‘rut in the modules’. Then, someone is born that carries a new form. And so on, until the very modern civilisation we experience today has developed. As Doige declares, “We only have a one generation veneer of civilisation”.  Yet that veneer doesn’t need to ge thicker, it just has to get more plastic. As it comes to encompass the globe, one humanity will eventually become the only culture there is. In the future, it will be considered a completely horrible handicap to be born with a capacity for hatred.