Still not what I was asking. But it's cool. Let's not derail Joe's thread.Building shelter was a survival instinct. So is building other shit to make money and survive. And potentially attract a good mate...Yes, the distinction is did the material world proceed from spirit.Lots of animals are sentient. It's part of nature.So is it fair to say you are a materialist; that sentience only proceeded from the material world?So Evolution itself is sentient, and uses Religion like a tool at its disposal.
Wow, what a finely tuned fairy tale that is.....whoa. LOL
Nope.
Evolution is a process. Religion is a tool of that process. The process itself need not be Sentient, it need only follow rules.
Given a living planet and enough Time and luck, Sentience is a product of Evolution.
Life is a chemical reaction playing out over Time.
That's the question.