So in summary no one believes that any child left on their own or on an Island like lord of the flies would create there own God and religion to explain things.
The belief is that this child would develope without any God or religion. I find this hard to believe.
Few more points, I believe God has existed before Homo Sapiens existed. I also believe God exists for Chimpanzee's and maybe Dolphins.
"The belief is that this child would develop without any god or religion. I find this hard to believe".
Are you saying, therefore, that gods, religions etc are a product of the human imagination? If left to their own devices, humanity would naturally create deities as a way of explaining natural phenomena? I agree entirely! This is, I think, how the 'god concept' originated.
Regarding other species and belief, yes, you'll have to provide some evidence for that (although Homo neanderthalensis apparently had a 'spiritual' life, based on remains of flowers and gifts in burial sites but that could be conjecture. Having said that, I'm willing to go along with that idea. A species such as H.neanderthalensis, with a complex brain, may well have been capable of abstract, spiritual thought).
