Is spirituailty innate?

[aitm]

Micheal Shermer has accurately pointed out that we have a propensity to do Type 2 Errors (false negative) in cognition, simply due to evolution, of attributing agency to natural events.

If you mistakenly think a rustles in the bushes is a predator and not just the wind, you've made a false negative in judgement and nothing interesting happens, other than attributing agency to the wind.

However, if we didn't have this propensity to attribute agency to events, we would be dinner the next time there was a rustle in the bushes and it turned out to be a predator - so the idiom, "better safe than sorry" is accurate here.

absolutely and imagine how easy it is for the shaman to arise, even by mistake or misadventure, suppose that rustle in the leaves is a predator and a man challenges it in front of others and for reason not related to the mans actions the predator hurries away. Every action the man took will be seen as the method for chasing away the animal and if that fails it will be noted that only "tong" could chase away the animal and now he has power. Simply seeing this from the mind of a simple child makes the evolution of religion very obvious.