Scientists search for an evolutionary explanation for why belief in God exists… not whether God exists, which is a matter for philosophers and theologians, but why the belief does.

Darwin’s God

Heavenbound: A scientific exploration of how we have come to believe in God.

In short, are we hard-wired to believe in God? And if we are, how and why did that happen?

God has always been a puzzle for Scott Atran. When he was 10 years old, he scrawled a plaintive message on the wall of his bedroom in Baltimore. “God exists, he wrote in black and orange paint, “or if he doesn’t, we’re in trouble… Atran has been struggling with questions about religion ever since.  Wondering why he himself no longer believes in God and why so many other people, everywhere in the world, apparently do.

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