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Question
Discuss how the age of speculation made humans become conscious and knowledgeable.
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Solution
- Humans are the only species on earth concerned with understanding as well as explaining the world and the universe.
- In the course of evolution, humans became conscious and knowledgeable.
- They turned curious and began to think and ask questions about nature, organisms and the world around them.
- They worshipped Sun, Moon and various natural forces about which they developed their own understanding, some of which is not scientific.
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