The development from polytheism particularly involving the sacred feminine fertility ---to the one-god and his wife--- to the all masculine one-god----- to the One-God-----to revelations from the One-God , since god-development relates entirely to human economies as they develop through hunter-gatherers---- to growers of surplus----- to kings and slaves----- to industrialised economies----to post-industrial monetary economies, shows beliefs about gods to be structurally related to how people find their food and shelter.Lacewing wrote:But there wouldn't be a bible on other planets, right? Will those beings care about some made-up story on this planet? Maybe they'll have come up with a different goddess and a different story and a different book. Then what?Ruskin wrote: If there are other planets like Earth and other sentient being like ourselves in this universe it will be part of the exact same creation so it would all apply equally to everything and everyone.
It's difficult for me to imagine a social species that does not follow the same developmental course.