Foundation of Religion

According to our best science, human beings have been around for about 100,000 years, plus or minus. Recently, I have studied the foundation stones of the religions of the world to see where they came from. To understand religion, particularly its origins, you have to understand where we came from and what we know about our origins with any certainty. If just reading the Bible is good enough for you, then so be it. However, the Bible skims over this period of some 98,000 years of existence. In my opinion, the Book of Genesis raises more questions than it answers. It may be accurate as far as it goes, but it fails to go far enough. For example, the writers of Genesis said that Noah was all by himself in his boat on the waters of the great flood. If you read the accounts of the flood in the ancient writings of other groups of people, you will find that they all had a Noah who escaped the waters. Are they all lying? There is also the possibility that some advanced societies were wiped out by the flood. People who had capabilities that are similar to ours and some even more advanced. I don't pretend to have the answers that I'm seeking, however, I am convinced that our history is far more complex than we know. What does this mean to the Gnostic? I submit that if you are serious about finding the true extent of God in your life, it is essential that you know as much as you can about your past. Nothing less than an understanding of how we got here in the first place. Where should you start? I suggest that you start with the books written by Graham Hancock, particularly "Fingerprints of the Gods." You don't have to agree with everything that he suggests in order to learn a great deal about the past and find yourself with questions that need answering. It is the search that is important so far as I am concerned. A search literally for the soul of our past, present, and future. A search for God.