What Do You Think?

[shiewhero]

Virtually every culture that existed or still exists has had a religion.

The only thing each culture had in common was they all were intelligent humans.

Which is more probable

1. That every culture got a divine inspiration from that higher power to start a religion?

Or

2. Man's need to understand his place in the universe and to control the cultures behavior created the higher power in his mind?

[jerrys1960]

How about a third option to your question

Be it science evolution or be it biblical, we all have a common ancestry or a common “starting” point.
Could it be that there is a common link to Our Creator somewhere in our history? For instance consider the Biblical Story of Noah.

Most every culture seems to have a reference to a great flood, even the Aztecs and other North and South American cultures that existed long before anyone from Europe, or Asia, discovered the Americas.

While granted the stories are somewhat different, there are a lot of commonalities. For instance in most of the cultures the story says all life was destroyed except for a select few, for various reasons. As for how to explain the differences in the stories, since many of the stories were shared word of mouth and not written there would, naturally over time, be changes in the stories - until the stories were permanently recorded.
When we consider all the religious commonalities of what appear to be totally unrelated cultures that would have had no contact between each other when the stories/history was recorded. It seems, to me, that there has to be something more than random chance or people just coming up with similar stories.

Just something to think about.