It is not what Adam envisions in his sleep, Müller suggested, but rather what he sees when he is awake that fuels his religious imagination. After all, Adam lives in a vast, incomprehensible world, teeming with mysteries he cannot possibly explain. He beholds oceans without end; he walks through forests so tall they scrape the sky, so old his ancestors told stories about them; he watches the sun forever chase the moon across the vault of heaven; and he knows that he had no role in creating these things. And so he assumes someone else—something else—must have created them for him.
