“Our spiritual awakening … is usually assumed to be an endowment that followed on the evolution of formal religion about thirty-five hundred years ago. Yet, we have known for several years now that our Homo neanderthalensis ancestors buried their dead with elaborate ceremonies, unmistakably religious or spiritual in nature. There is no known assistance from priests or other religious specialists in these burials. While various scholars, such as E. Fuller Torrey, seek to establish belief in God on more solid scientific grounds, such research fails to explain the much older spiritual ethos that manifests in our human creative endeavors of which Ice Age art is an eminent example.”