Science of God

Some time back, there was a story in Slashdot Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science, technology, and politics that are submitted and evaluated by site users and editors. Each story has a comments section where users can add online comments. Slashdot also offers a business software comparison directory with over 100,000 software products. science section which dealt with "Human beings believing in God was necessary for adaptation, survival and reproduction". This was a study of genetic theory about how humans came to believe in God. One of the scientists got curious at the fact (which surprised me too) that "started looking at history, and I wondered why no society ever survived more than three generations without a religious foundation as its raison d'être."

The article details that humans are hardwired to believe in god, it has supported the survival of the race and various different theories of existence and normal human understanding. It also gives account of how atheists Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which is the belief that at least one deity exists. view the fact and they have to work hard to get the details rather than just leaving it unexplained.

The slashdot story as usual was interesting.