Originally Posted by Daniel_

EXPLANATION FOR EUROPEANS AND OTHER FREE THINKERS

People are descended from early primates.

Early primates were preyed on by scary carnivores with camoflaged fur.

The primates that could spot a pattern that MIGHT be a tiger lived to breed.

Pattern spotting therefore became a skill that evolution selected for.

EXPLANATION FOR NEO-CON CHRISTIANS AND OTHER ODD FOLKS

God makes the little pixies in your clock ring a tiny magic bell at 11:10:59 so you look round.