Why do people believe in God?

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Is it because they are weak and cannot take reality?

I enjoy reality and live in the now, I don't see what weakness or strength has to do with beliefs at all. If yoou percieve the opposite side as weaker perhaps you're projecting.

Is it a chemical imbalance in their brains (or in ours)?

Good idea treating differences in ideologies as a disease. I think fundamental literalists are still doing that to homosexuals today, go picket with them. Are you intentionlly trying to obfuscate the point?

Is it genetic? Are Atheists the next step in evolution?

I would hope independant thought and true personal freedom would be the next step in social evolution. If we determine thoughts and beliefs can be controlled at a genetic level, let's just sign up for the baby maker vending machine, then we can all get what we want. Could you email me your genetic mapping, I think I'd want to leave out certain codons relating to perception, discrimination and open-mindedness.



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5. Because they draw the logical conclusion from subjective evidence, deductive reasoning, and testing/verification that it's more likely that a creator exists than not.