The evolutionist take on magic and religion is that it was a way of interpreting the phenomena with whatever limited information humans had at the time. Thus the difference between them is a degree of knowledge. However I think a better case can be made that perceiving agency behind every process is an inherent property of the human mind. Grug didn't sit and think about why the wind blows until he came to the conclusion it was the Wind Grug, rather he simply couldn't conceive that some things happen without an involvement of some Grug-like entity. Consider the language and how it can't even describe any event without resorting to agency. The Sun sets. The wind blows. The stars shine. Even the chair stands in the corner. And we're still doing it constantly and we'll never stop. Our mundane logic is something that runs parallel to this process. <|endoftext|> 