IAN: The use of hallucinogenic agents is observed to be
central to almost all primitive "religious" organization.
However much we might like to trash religion, I don't
think any objective observer could honestly dispute its
central formative role in, and expression of, the evolu-
tion of human intelligence from pre-human conditions.
The same goes for "rock paintings."
How many nonhumans have religions? How many nonhumans
paint coherent images? None that I'm aware of. As you
concede that hallucinogens may have promoted their aris-
ing, it seems that you must also concede that the hallu-
cinogenic theory of the arising of human intelligence,
specifically of those feature that mark its arising,
correlates strongly with the physical evidence.
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