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« on: August 25, 2009, 11:03:00 pm »

Mr Card said: “This is architecture on a monumental scale and the result is the largest structure of its kind anywhere in the north of Britain. It's one of those finds of a lifetime.”

The building probably served as some kind of temple, maybe for remembering the dead. For all we know, it may have been a place where sacrifices, even human sacrifices, were offered up.

Other buildings, over 50ft long and 30ft wide, have also been discovered. This is major, major stuff.

Dr Colin Richards, a leading expert on the period, said the building would have stood at the heart of Neolithic Orkney. “A structure of this nature would have been renowned right across the north of Scotland – and is unprecedented anywhere in Britain.”

It’s clear that those big buildings were designed to create a sense of awe in the punters. They were intended to drive people to their knees.

The instinct for worship has been with humankind for a long, long time. There seems to have always been an urge among people to worship a god or gods. The very existence of the world itself creates a sense of wonder.

Of course, the earliest human beings might have simply been superstitious. They would tend to see the presence of God in a big mysterious mountain, or even in cloud formations. It's easy to see how people would interpret thunder and lightning as evidence of the displeasure of a god.

Of course, we now know so much more about natural phenomena. We tend not to see gods in mountains and rivers and fields. Science has explained so many things for us.

But there are so many things that science can't explain: such as why is there something rather than nothing? There are mysteries which the human mind may never be able to explain.
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