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Are the Gods and Goddesses personifications of nature from a primitive, pre-scientific age?

Short Answer:  Yes and No.
Long Answer:
    The 'scientific age' dates back 2500 years to when the founding Fathers of Science sought an alternative explanation for the workings of the universe and resolved to drop the mystical from the equation of intelligent inquiry - that mighty supernatural beings were the behind-the-scenes prime movers of all things, responsible in some inexplicable way for the existence and order of life. From Thales of Miletus onward the Wise men of new science believed they could and should figure it all out with eyes and fingers, but heads emptied of mythic management and tales of Chaos and Creation so widely accepted @ BCE 500.

The long journey of scientific understanding continues, though after 2500 years of eyes and fingers and apparently open minds, the scientific age faces some serious problems. Thales' heirs have followed a butterfly wing to Chaos Theory and admit that life seems miraculously organised into its structures; and that Nature, contrary to all expectation is unpredictable. In fact predictability is the exception, not the norm, and the probability of life existing as it does is like delivering a pile of bricks to a village outside of Paris and expecting the palace of Versailles to rise unaided from the raw materials.
    Identifying with any precision how Chaos is structured into its magnificent variety is a problem, because the Organising Principles remain a mystery, invisible, unknown.
    And in the Quantum World unknowable.

Worse even, there is a serious shortfall in cosmic calculation, because 99% of the visible universe is in fact invisible in the form of Cold Dark Matter.

Scientific Scrutiny & Quantum Conundrum
   

Thanks to the age of science we are in fact less certain of what exists and what does not. Nonetheless we are still encouraged to favour theories denying the existence of super consciousnesses at work.
    Such beliefs are dismissed as 'primitive', a tendency by the peoples of the pre-scientific age to personify nature. When faced with the elements, the primitive human could only imagine a cosmic being behind it, whereas with the aid of scientific scrutiny, we now can be assured there is not. This belief in nature spirits is often linked with an animist conception of the world, that nature has consciousness and spirit guardians, trace beliefs from a stage of human evolution when the human mind could not discriminate between the dream lands of sleep and waking hours. Others claim that the brains of these ancestors were not quite so well connected as now and what ancient people thought were the Gods speaking to them was nothing more than the other part of their brain conversing and offering suggestions.

The mantra of the scientific age is: 'everything is science'. Science will reveal the ultimate truth of reality, given enough provision for research, of course.
    But don't hold your breath. There are some now who think this quest is confounded to meaninglessness by quantum conundrum. Meanwhile the journey continues among grand master Aristotle's heirs: 'truth enough can be found in statistics'. And this may well be so.
Among the recent fruits of experiment is the discovery plants respond to stimuli in various unexpected ways... 
    They have consciousness.
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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