>Have herd of fluffy ponies in natural habitat
>They are animals
>Very much operating on instincts, survival of the fittest
>Primitive
>Go to the store
>Pick up the bible on audiotape
>Play it on a casset player, and deliver it to the fluffy herd in disguise as a bush
>Fluffy herd crowds around the "tawkey fwein'" and, eventually, shut up and listen to it
>They listen to fabulous tales of boys slaying giants and giant ships and great floods and towers of babel
>Your hypothesis is correct
>Post-exposure, Fluffy ponies develop their own miniature version of religion
>Concepts in the bible form the basis for fluffy pony morality
>No more do mothers shun their babies
>Eating the meat of any other creature is forbidden (the herd had occasionally fed on the carcasses of dead rabbits they found)
>Fluffy ponies live in fear of god, but have a generally more-equal society
>Smarty friends are phased out
>Soon, fluffy ponies begin to develop tactics for finding food, agriculture (burying berries), and, in some cases, art (pictures out of berry juice)
>Experiment: successful!
>All forseen in your hypothesis
>All except one thing
>Fluffy ponies now bite the foreskin off of baby colts at birth
>Turns out the audiobook you bought only contained the Old Testament
>"Mawzzuwtowff!"