Every human culture has believed in spirits, gods or some other divine being. That’s why human beings have often been called Homo religioso. Some people take this long history of belief in the otherworldly as evidence for God; doesn’t it explain why religion continues to be so pervasive? But many scientists are coming up with their own, decidedly secular, theories about the origins of faith. In fact, over the last few years, a small cottage industry made up of scientists and philosophers has devoted itself to demystifying the divine. [more]

What Mr. Paulson neglects to state is that spirits, gods, divine beings, were merely titles attributed to or a gift bestowed upon, the decidedly stronger male species. However, in the spirit of fairness and newly found fear of the opposite sex, exceptions were made. Gods with female attributes (Women) were anointed to balance things out. The male species however found (a little too late) that their newly appointed goddesses had a propensity for dining on gonads. The Exodus Gonadus in -1 BCE was the pivotal turning point for the female species. The male species has yet to recover.