Spiritual evolution

concept of religion as an evolved phenomenon

Imagine that with the advent of a larger brain which could sense and respond to spiritual realities there arose in the process of evolution on this earth simultaneously the reality of the spiritual such that when people died their "spirits" lived on as angels, and gods emerged. In a mysterious development, these evolved gods were able to exert some limited control over the physical properties of the "natural" world. It may be that some competition developed among these gods and angels, and different gods gathered to themselves human populations who would respond to their summons. Yahweh and the Christ called out to the Hebrews and Christians, Allah the muslims, Buddah the Chinese, etc. These gods are not the product of man's imagination, but rather distinct spiritual realities living in de Chardin's Noosphere. When Yahweh delivers the Ten commandments, it's a "real" being who communes with Moses, and he makes the case that he's to be the supreme god for the Hebrews and their descendants. Whether Yahweh and Allah are diffenent gods is unknown. It could be that rather than competing gods, we see a spiritual flux or variation from one form to another, so that Muhhamad's Allah is but one variation of the Hebrew Yahweh. It's a mystery. There may have been spiritual beings in the world long before man evolved sufficiently to appreciate them.