If wonder at ordered, powerful natural phenomena generates gods of sky, sea, and sun, then polytheism shares its cognitive origin with design-based theism, undermining the sharp genetic distinction Hume draws.

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Cognitive origin(as used in epistemology): Where an idea or belief comes from in our minds—what causes us to think it in the first place.
Design-based theism(as used in philosophy of religion): The belief that God exists because the world shows signs of being deliberately designed, like a watch implies a watchmaker.
Genetic distinction(as used in philosophy of religion): A difference in how something came into being or developed, rather than what it looks like now.
Hume(as the main philosopher discussed in this statement): David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that human knowledge comes from experience and observation rather than pure reasoning alone.
Polytheism(Distinguished from theism by its origin in fear and ignorance rather than rational reflection on natural order)

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