How Did Apes Across the Globe Develop Similar Beliefs in a Creator?

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What do you mean "changed"?

Like "since today pi is 7"?
 
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Kglocc said:
I'm sorry, I've never heard of Goedel before, and I can't quite grasp what the wikipedia is trying to say about incompleteness theorem. But how does that, "not allow for infinity within the human mind"? Are you saying that Goedel somehow proved we cannot comprehend infinity with a proof? Even so, the concept of infinity may be impossible in the human mind, but actual infinity still exists (i.e. in math and physics) right?

Ah, no, I'm saying that the concept of "infinite imaginative" capacity is not what the theorem is about. That's a happy notion, but not one that's rooted in any science or math, so it just doesn't apply. In fact, there are other principles and theories which limit the capacity of the human mind, or the information content of any discrete entity.
 
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