RENAISSANCE FEBRUARY 2021

22 Monthly Renaissance February 2021 Faith & Beliefs Essence of Polytheism (8) Amin Ahsan Islahi Is Polytheism a Demand of Human Nature? In current times, every research in scholarly fields and the arts is believed to have originated from the theory of evolution. Whether it is history or law, economics or politics, philosophy and religion or the knowledge of civilizations and sociology – the desire to seek their origins is so predominant among all that any field is considered incomplete without it. Consequently, the compiled legacy of all knowledge that is available in its complete form is not only assumed to be inadequate to demonstrate its real value, but is often declared to be wrong and misguided. Today, research related to every aspect of human life is carried out with respect to the phase when humans were in their earliest evolutionary condition and of which no written history is available to us. Obviously, this phase is a phase hidden under darkness. Whatever is said about it should not have a value above hazarding wild guesses about the unknown and casting arrows by trial and error. Archaeologists and biologists are considered to be the experts who guide us in this darkness. They believe that the layers of the soil, strata of hills, relics within caves, buried bones, instruments of earlier ages and the crooked lines and grooves of early humans to be the real legacy of knowledge and thus build their structures of assessment and conclusions on the basis of these findings. Everyone agrees that this is no more than guesswork. However, it is given so much importance that whatever is found to be aligned with this assumption is considered to be reality: that which does not match it is assumed to be without substance and to be an unnatural barrier in the process of evolution. It does