They've actually done that in the horror movie ... What was it called ... VHS? There was a murderer who constantly looked like a recording error. Well, that one one of the short stories in the movie. The rubbish short story. Eh.

He will be missed.
Man he was brilliant.

Does that mean he will learn about the supernatural without being imposed by others?

Maybe but it wouldn't be the same supernatural as the christians, muslims, etc. He'd probably create his own religion because he wouldn't know how else to explain it.

Well I guess, there is the chance, debating will make some Christians start to question their religion and eventually this will lead them to a more honest path.

Well i think it's safe to say it's possible, the religion itself doesn't matter really, given there are medieval tribes in history that had many gods, someone sometime must have came to some supernatural conclusion without being imposed by others - and starting spreading it... hmm

This is pretty interesting because it actually means we are (or at least some of us) genetically dispositioned to believe in the supernatural, if we can come to a supernatural conclusion by our selfs. Does that mean our genes are prone to theism, or more specifically, does that mean that if we are destined to believe in something supernatural in the future, are we actually theists to begin with? If the medieval guy came to the supernatural conclusion, was it just a blind luck or does it mean something more... gatdaymn... my mind starts to hurt...

No, it's just when you know no better, if you don't know how to experiment you'll make outrageous claims that cannot be backed up by fact.

You know, "tribesman" implies that the individual belongs to a certain social group with a certain set of beliefs and stuff so that doesn't really make any sense.

As for the experiment, I predict that most likely a person who hasn't been subject to any prior indoctrination will turn out animist.

A genocide is when someone tries to target a group of people for execution because of their ethnicity. I hope that you are able to tell the difference between that and judging that someone deserves the death penalty because of their actions.

The explanation is quite simple, actually. We are curious, seek answers, and have a lot of imagination. The processes which cause most of stuff like rains, lightening etc. are not instantly apparent and are not easily comprehended without a lot of abstraction and understanding of a huge amount of related problems, so instead, people start thinking in terms of what they know. What they do know is their own way of life, and their surroundings - so people start relating to that. They know that by following a certain procedure, they can create fire or forge a sword in more advanced societies, so obviously, there has to be something, much more powerful than them, what is causing all of these things to happen. And there you have it, gods are quite simply the easiest way to explain a problem - and all people are alike in how they think, so they will all eventually come to the same conclusion. Not because they would be 'genetically engineered to believe in gods', but because gods are the most straightforward, most comprehensible and laziest way to explain how the world around them works.

If Christianity is true, then the most important decision you can make in this life is to follow Christ. If you really thought someone was about to drive off of a cliff, then the most loving think you could do would be to try to get them to stop and turn around.

Religion is organized spirituality. He would come up with beliefs of his own but it wouldn't become a religion unless there were a whole group of people sharing these beliefs and handing them down to the next generation.

I know we're running a bit of a circle here, but I have the same basis for my beliefs as the other guy. I consider a person trying to change my beliefs even in spite of voicing my wish for him to not do so incredibly inpolite and, quite frankly, insulting. Comparison to the car accident is not quite the same thing, because you can actually offer me empirical evidence of high chances of me dying or severely hurting myself, which is where that stops being a word against a word.

I didn't reply to the speculation because I don't see how that's useful. I think it's very important to try to understand the Bible through the lens of how the early Jewish believers understood it. I do not consider myself to hold typical Christian beliefs in that regard.

That's a good reply, put's some things in perspective ;)