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Article: God: the unauthorized biography.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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1 In the beginning ...
Creating gods is something humans have probably always done. The human search for 'God' began long before the invention of writing. We know this because archaeologists have recovered artefacts from Palaeolithic times--35,000-10,000 BCE*--that resemble objects of later periods identified as sacred in surviving texts.
2 A question of sex ...
The history of God begins, some experts claim, not with god at all--but with Goddess. The deity was first imagined as female for at least the first 200,000 years of human life on earth. To prove this, archaeologists cite the very common occurrence of what they call 'Venuses'--female ...
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