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.