Why was the concept of a deity so acceptable by man's earliest ancestors?

Question

Why was the concept of a deity so acceptable by man's earliest ancestors?

Answer 1

It was the only way that early Shamans could explain the unexplainable!

Answer 2

Someone had to be in charge....

Answer 3

Evidence from the earliest ancestors suggest that they were animists, not monotheists.  Indeed, most religions reflect the type of society that they were born out of.

Answer 4

Lack of scientific maturity. A human need to fill holes of ignorance. (even with fallacies)

Answer 5

The assumption of a powerful force beyond our ken is natural and, for the time, logical.

Picture yourself, sitting in the mouth of a cave, say, 50,000 years ago.

You gaze at the Moon and watch it rise from over there and travel to over there. You assume that unlike the tree, which cannot move, it must be alive. You wonder what it is and make assumptions, the it changes shape and keeps doing this each night.

Now comes the bright light again in the day and it's even brighter, so bright, in fact, it hurts to look at it. You imagine that it is terrible and does not want you to look directly at it and will hurt you if you do.

One of your tribe does and then he can no longer see. You imagine a terrible force worthy of being pleased so it won;t blind you like it did your tribe member.

42,000 years later your descendants arrive in Mesopotamia with the story, in tact. The rest, as they say, is history!

Answer 6

I suppose it just goes to prove that early man was a lot more intelligent than was otherwise thought.