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by kolpa 3004 days ago
> It's just too shallow to dismiss it as superstitious ancestors who werent as smart as us.

This is commonly misunderstand point, as you hint at.

Our ancestors were about as smart as we are -- some smarter, some not, but on average they were far more ignorant of how the world works. There were plenty of brilliant ideas wrapped around less sure knowledge.