I entered into the earlier long discussion on ontology and epistemology in preparation for submitting and testing the following assumption: Let us assume that the way we come to faith in God and come to
develop symbolic expressions about relationship to Him is not fundamentally different from the way we come to have certitude about and develop symbolic specificity about our other relations.
Although some archaeologists argued that the human capacity for
symbolic expression developed over time in Africa, others felt that the European creative explosion reflected a new leap in human abilities.