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It depends on how sentient they are and they are not all equally sentient. For example, I do not think a virus is sentient at all. I am not even sure it is alive. A chimp, on the other hand, has a lot of sentience. In fact, chimps are already displaying behavior that for want of better explanation scientists are calling religious, such as dancing in thunderstorms and collecting rock piles at the base of certain trees. IOW if it were humans doing these things, we would say it was religious behavior.Do you think animals, insects, bacteria, viruses pray/can pray to God for their requirements, desires etc ?
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Do you think animals, insects, bacteria, viruses pray/can pray to God for their requirements, desires etc ?
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Tit-for-tat behaviour? Which is one of the basic ingedients of human behaviour, and which involves nothing other than what might be best for both parties in most cases. That is, encouragement to continue such (good behaviour), especially when the birds are likely to understand what artificial objects are and that they are associated with humans.You know, there was this little girl who would feed the crows outside of her window. As time went on, more showed up. Eventually, they started bringing her gifts like shiny stones and bits of metal in exchange for her generosity.
The girl who gets gifts from birds
How is that so different from prayer?
No.Do you think animals, insects, bacteria, viruses pray/can pray to God for their requirements, desires etc ?
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Interesting website.I think that with enough evolution that might happen as theism might be a logical step in societal development.
At the moment it has been suggested that certain animals have proto-religious behaviour:
Religious behavior in animals - Wikipedia
But I would need to see full studies on it to be fully convinced. Apparently Elephants wave branches at the moon which might indicate moon worship or that they just love the moon. The problem is that we cannot determine an animals motives behind their actions, so to us what might seem religious might actually not be to the animals.
Interesting website.
Not as such, no.Do you think animals, insects, bacteria, viruses pray/can pray to God for their requirements, desires etc ?
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Everything is part of the same diety as me imo.Do you think animals, insects, bacteria, viruses pray/can pray to God for their requirements, desires etc ?
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Meh.......God prays to cats.
All other animals are mere toys for cats.Meh.......
.....badgers......
Do you think animals, insects, bacteria, viruses pray/can pray to God for their requirements, desires etc ?
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From what we can understand, their thought processes are overly exaggerated by Disney.
Cats were, at one time, considered to be gods.
They have never forgotten this
Don't understand what you mean to say. Please explain in detail.
I think that with enough evolution that might happen as theism might be a logical step in societal development.
At the moment it has been suggested that certain animals have proto-religious behaviour:
Religious behavior in animals - Wikipedia
But I would need to see full studies on it to be fully convinced. Apparently Elephants wave branches at the moon which might indicate moon worship or that they just love the moon. The problem is that we cannot determine an animals motives behind their actions, so to us what might seem religious might actually not be to the animals.
We know that social animals show displays that have no direct benefit to the animal itself often at times when they are alone not intended for another to be seen. There is no direct benefit to the survival of the individual. We know they are aware of the unpredictability of the environment they live in, and we know they recognize death and the places where death has occurred.
On the neurologic side many social animals contain the neurons called von economo neurons that seem to play a role in empathetic behavior and this is backed by increasing observations of altruistic like behaviors of one animal to another. Many social animals have the mirror neurons necessary to relate to the activities of others in understanding their actions and increasing evidence for theory of mind to attribute an understanding of another individual in their group increasing the complexity of social interactions.
We know from humans that these same pathways allow us to attribute human characteristics to non-human living and non-living things. There is no reason not to believe that other animals with these same capacities can do the same. The ultimate attribution of human characteristics is to parent like being which can be described as a god. Without any evidence of god presenting themselves humans have no difficulty attributing human and superhuman characteristics to a god without any evidence of existence. Since other animals have these same evolutionary derived neurological abilities there is no reason to consider that they could not also have the same ability.
It was not long ago that we thought that tool use made humans different but that has long been proven incorrect, then we believed that humans only contained von economo neurons as a sign that humans were separate, then it was theory of mind. Each has failed as evidence that separates humans animals from other animals, Only language, especially written language remains the sole priority of humans but is that absolutely necessary for a belief in a god?
start a thread....let's explore the extent of God's awarenessAnimals are unaware of God, but God is still aware of them.
Do you think animals, insects, bacteria, viruses pray/can pray to God for their requirements, desires etc ?
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