Originally Posted by Dylith

There have actually been scientific studies done on why people believe in God/gods (there is currently a three year one going on right now)

Findings suggest that:

Because of the natural design of human minds. Human minds, under normal developmental conditions, have a strong receptivity to belief in gods, in the afterlife, in moral absolutes, and in other ideas commonly associated with “religion.” Further, our natural endowment goes a long way toward making religious rituals and other practices a nearly inevitable feature of human sociality. In a real sense, religiousness is the natural state of affairs. Unbelief is relatively unusual and unnatural.

Originally Posted by Robert Ingersoll

That looks like a mighty interesting study, Dylith. I sure would like to read more of it. Would you mind posting a link? I thank you in advance.