By Daniel Mocsny:

There is an amusing video on YouTube in which a gentleman makes physical-comedy type of error – he trips on a treadmill at the gym and gets thrown off – and then quickly recovers and carries on nonchalantly, as if to wordlessly declare, “Yeah, I meant to do that.”

Religions work like that. The old religions began in the pre-scientific world, in which even many educated people freely commingled empirical claims with fantastical ones.* Most likely, ancient thinkers thought this way because their lived experience showed them the sorts of things that usually happen, and they reasoned in commonsense ways, but they lacked the modern scientific knowledge that we live in a universe governed by physical laws, so they did not appropriately constrain their notions of what could happen.

Fast forward to the modern world, and religions are like the guy who falls off the treadmill while checking out the hot girl in the gym, then tries to cover his error by breaking into a set of pushups, now that he’s on the floor. “Yeah, I mean to do that.” Religions are festooned with cognitive fossils – embarrassing markers of erroneous pre-scientific thinking – and struggling to paint them as all part of some master plan.

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