:::Regarding "Primitive": Certainly these tribes are "modern" in the sense that they are living in the 21st century. But the point is that their most early beliefs, going back we don't know how many centuries or millenia (many of them refer back to the time of their first migration to their present homeland) attest to an early belief in one God. My original paragraph that you omitted is therefore relevant to this discussion of Documentary Hypothesis, since the Hypothesis has always held that monotheism "evolved" as a central tenet. Is this presupposition of the Documentary Hypothesis to be held unfalsifiable by the actual examination of ancient tribal histories and ancient historical texts? See the Monotheism article I just added to to find more explanation, and which also challenges the idea of an evolutionary development or religion that is firmly entrenched in Wikipedia and other liberal sources. I think these ideas should be falisfiable, and evidence that is contrary to its tenets should be allowed to be stated, with appropriate scholarly references.[[User:Latent|Latent]] 16:47, 3 June 2009 (EDT) | :::Regarding "Primitive": Certainly these tribes are "modern" in the sense that they are living in the 21st century. But the point is that their most early beliefs, going back we don't know how many centuries or millenia (many of them refer back to the time of their first migration to their present homeland) attest to an early belief in one God. My original paragraph that you omitted is therefore relevant to this discussion of Documentary Hypothesis, since the Hypothesis has always held that monotheism "evolved" as a central tenet. Is this presupposition of the Documentary Hypothesis to be held unfalsifiable by the actual examination of ancient tribal histories and ancient historical texts? See the Monotheism article I just added to to find more explanation, and which also challenges the idea of an evolutionary development or religion that is firmly entrenched in Wikipedia and other liberal sources. I think these ideas should be falisfiable, and evidence that is contrary to its tenets should be allowed to be stated, with appropriate scholarly references.[[User:Latent|Latent]] 16:47, 3 June 2009 (EDT) |