When Did Humans Start Believing in God? 🤔 | The Origins of Religion

When did humans start believing in God? This documentary explores the origins of religion, the first religious beliefs, and the earliest evidence of supernatural thinking in human history. When did religion begin? Did the first humans believe in gods, spirits, ancestors, or something completely different? Long before temples, scriptures, organized religion, and ancient civilizations, prehistoric humans were already leaving behind mysterious clues. In this documentary, we travel tens of thousands of years into the past to investigate the origins of religion and the earliest signs of ritual behavior. We begin with the ancient burial of a three-year-old child in Kenya and the mysterious site known as Mtoto. From there, we follow archaeological evidence including prehistoric burials, red ochre, animal remains, symbolic objects, Neanderthal burials, the Shanidar “flower burial” mystery, and the strange structures hidden deep inside a French cave. But what do these discoveries actually tell us? Did Neanderthals have religion? Did prehistoric humans believe in an afterlife? Was the first religion based on gods, spirits, ancestors, dreams, or invisible forces? There is a major problem: archaeology can discover bones, stones, graves, pigments, footprints, and ancient tools — but it cannot directly discover what an ancient human was thinking. That is why the question “When did humans start believing in God?” may be more complicated than it sounds. The first religion may not have been a religion in the modern sense. The origins of religion may have developed gradually through death, dreams, memory, ritual, symbolism, ancestor beliefs, and supernatural thinking. This video explores: when did humans start believing in God, when did religion begin, what was the first religion, the origins of religion, prehistoric religion, ancient human beliefs, Neanderthal religion, the evolution of religion, the earliest evidence of ritual, and the origins of supernatural beliefs. Maybe there was never a single first believer. Maybe the story began long before humans had a word for God. #Religion #Archaeology #HumanHistory