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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

In the same way, the fields of sociology, anthropology and his-
tory have also been affected by the theory of evolution, but knowl-
edge gained from discoveries in the last century have shown this
influence has been counterproductive.
The common feature of all these evolutionary theories is their
opposition to any belief in God. This is the philosophical basis be-
hind the mistaken idea of the evolution of religion. According to the
false claims of Herbert Spencer, a leading proponent of this error,
early human beings had no religion. The first religions supposedly
began with the worship of the dead. Other anthropologists who sup-
port the deception of religion's "evolution" propose different ac-
counts. Some say that religion has its source in animism (the
attribution of divine spirit to nature); others think that it arose from

totemism (the worship of a symbolic person, group or object).
Another anthropologist, E.B. Taylor, believes that religion developed
from animism to manism (ancestor-worship), polytheism (the belief
in many gods) and finally ending in monotheism (the belief in one
God).

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