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IMPROBABILITY OF GOD'S EXISTENCE (#227) CRITIQUED

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(Investigator 230, 2026 September)

"The Improbability of God's Existence: An Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective" in Investigator No. 227 was "Created with AI Essay Writer" and submitted by Kirk Straughen.

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A Critical Examination of
"The Improbability of God's Existence"

The essay under review presents a structured anthropological and archaeological case for the improbability of God’s existence. While its historical overview and sociological framing are valuable, several of its core arguments rely on assumptions that are either contestable, incomplete, or philosophically insufficient to support the conclusion that God is improbable. This response examines those weaknesses, focusing on methodological limitations, conceptual conflations, and problematic inferences.

1. The Evolution of Religious Belief: Description vs. Explanation

The essay traces the development of religious ideas from animism to monotheism, implying that the historical emergence of belief systems undermines their truth. This is a category mistake. Demonstrating that beliefs evolve does not show that their referent is unreal.

Anthropology can describe how humans have conceived of the divine; it cannot adjudicate whether any divine reality exists. The fact that early societies practiced animism does not logically entail that later monotheistic claims are culturally fabricated. Human understanding of mathematics, ethics, and cosmology also evolved dramatically, yet their objects of study are not dismissed as mere social constructs.

The essay’s reliance on Whitehouse, Assmann, and others is appropriate for cultural history, but the inference from "beliefs change" to "beliefs are false" is not supported by the evidence.

2. Monotheism and Social Stratification: A Partial Explanation

The essay argues that monotheism arose from increasing social complexity and centralized authority. This is plausible as a contributing factor, but it is not exhaustive. It overlooks:

Experiential claims (prophetic experiences, mystical encounters, revelatory traditions) that cannot be reduced to social stratification.

Philosophical developments (e.g., Greek metaphysics, Near Eastern conceptions of transcendence) that shaped monotheism independently of political structures.

Cross cultural convergences, such as the emergence of high gods in societies without strong central authority.

Material conditions may influence religious expression, but they do not fully explain the content or persistence of monotheistic belief. The essay treats sociological explanations as if they were metaphysical refutations, which they are not.

3. Anthropomorphism: Overgeneralized and Misapplied

The essay’s critique of anthropomorphism relies heavily on Jaynes, Dawkins, and Dennett, arguing that human projection invalidates divine attributes. However, this argument assumes that all religious conceptions of God are anthropomorphic in the same way.
This is demonstrably false.

Non anthropomorphic traditions

Major theological traditions explicitly reject anthropomorphism:

•    Classical Judaism (e.g., Maimonides’ negative theology)
•    Christian classical theism (Augustine, Aquinas)
•    Islamic theology (tanzīh: God's incomparability)
•    Hindu Vedantic traditions (Brahman as non personal absolute)

These traditions argue that God is not a being with human emotions but the ground of being, the source of rational order, or the necessary existent. The essay treats popular religious imagery as representative of all theology, which is a methodological error.

Projection does not imply non existence

Even if some believers anthropomorphize God, this does not show that God is improbable. Humans anthropomorphize animals, algorithms, and natural forces; the projection does not determine the reality of the object.

4. Material Conditions and Human Nature: Reductionism Without Justification

The essay adopts a Marxian and materialist framework, claiming that religion arises from material conditions. This is a legitimate interpretive lens, but it is not a neutral one. It presupposes:

•    that human consciousness is reducible to material factors,
•    that non material explanations are invalid,
•    that existential or metaphysical intuitions are epiphenomenal.

These assumptions are philosophical, not empirical. Archaeology cannot demonstrate that consciousness, rationality, or moral experience are fully reducible to material conditions. Thus, the argument is circular: it assumes materialism to conclude materialism.

5. Science and the Displacement Thesis: Overstated and Historically Inaccurate

The essay claims that scientific progress increasingly displaces divine explanations. This “displacement thesis” is historically simplistic.

Science has displaced some explanations (e.g., thunder as divine anger), but not metaphysical claims about why laws of nature exist, why the universe is intelligible, or why anything exists at all.

Many foundational scientists (Kepler, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein) saw rational order as pointing toward deeper metaphysical questions, not away from them.

Contemporary philosophy of science does not claim that scientific explanation eliminates metaphysical inquiry; it often presupposes it.

The essay treats scientific explanation as exhaustive, but this is itself a philosophical position (scientism), not a scientific finding.

6. Pluralism: Diversity Does Not Imply Falsehood

The essay argues that religious diversity undermines the plausibility of any one deity. This is logically weak. Diversity of belief exists in:

•    ethics,
•    political theory,
•    mathematics (historically),
•    cosmology (before modern physics).

Yet diversity does not imply that all positions are false. Pluralism shows cultural variation, not metaphysical impossibility.

Conclusion

The essay offers a coherent anthropological narrative but overextends its conclusions. It conflates:

•    historical development with falsification,
•    sociological explanation with metaphysical refutation,
•    anthropomorphic imagery with classical theology,
•    materialist assumptions with empirical findings,
•    scientific progress with metaphysical displacement.

These moves render its argument for the improbability of God’s existence philosophically incomplete. While the essay succeeds as a cultural history of religious ideas, it does not provide a logically compelling case that God — conceived in non anthropomorphic, classical, or metaphysical terms — is improbable or incoherent.

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The Human Construction of God:
Anthropological, Archaeological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief

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Kirk Straughen

(Investigator #231, 2026 November)

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Abstract

The concept of God has occupied a central position in human societies for thousands of years, yet the forms taken by religious belief vary enormously across cultures and historical periods. This essay examines the origins and development of concepts of the divine through anthropological, archaeological, historical, and cognitive perspectives. It argues that religious concepts are deeply shaped by human psychology, cultural transmission, social organization, and material conditions. Archaeological evidence indicates that ritual and symbolic behaviour long predate historically documented monotheism, while comparative anthropology demonstrates considerable variation in concepts of spirits, ancestors, gods, and supernatural forces. The development of increasingly elaborate religious institutions also appears closely connected with the emergence of settled agriculture, social hierarchy, political authority, and economic specialization. Cognitive research provides further evidence that human beings possess psychological tendencies that make supernatural-agent concepts particularly intuitive and culturally transmissible. These observations do not constitute a deductive proof that no transcendent deity exists. They do, however, undermine the claim that the existence and persistence of religious belief provide independent evidence for the objective existence of God. They also challenge the idea that any particular human conception of God can be assumed to represent an unmediated or universal revelation of an external reality.

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1. Introduction

Few ideas have exercised as much influence over human history as the idea of God. Gods have been invoked to explain the origin of the universe, natural disasters, disease, fertility, morality, political authority, death, and the ultimate purpose of human existence. Religious institutions have shaped laws, political systems, art, literature, warfare, and social organization. At the same time, conceptions of the divine have differed profoundly between cultures. The gods of ancient Mesopotamia were not identical to those of Egypt; Greek and Roman religion differed from the religious traditions of ancient Israel; and the God of later Christianity and Islam was understood in ways that reflected the intellectual and social environments in which those traditions developed.
This diversity raises an important question. If humanity’s concepts of God vary according to historical and cultural circumstances, to what extent should those concepts be understood as discoveries of an external supernatural reality, and to what extent are they constructions of the human mind and society?

This question should be distinguished from the narrower philosophical question of whether some form of transcendent reality exists. Anthropology and archaeology cannot, by themselves, demonstrate that a deity does not exist. They can, however, investigate the origins, development, and distribution of religious beliefs. They can ask why humans repeatedly construct supernatural agents, why particular religious ideas emerge in particular societies, and why conceptions of the divine frequently resemble the social and psychological worlds of their creators.

The central argument of this essay is therefore not that anthropology provides a simple empirical disproof of God. Rather, it is that anthropological, archaeological, and cognitive evidence provides substantial support for a naturalistic explanation of religious belief. Human concepts of God appear to be mediated by evolved cognitive tendencies, cultural traditions, historical circumstances, and material conditions. Consequently, the mere existence, persistence, or emotional power of religious belief cannot reasonably be treated as independent evidence that its supernatural objects actually exist.

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2. The Origins of Religious Behaviour

2.1 Prehistoric ritual and symbolism

Religious belief predates written history by many thousands of years. Because prehistoric societies left no written theological explanations, however, the nature of their beliefs must be reconstructed cautiously from archaeological evidence.

Evidence of intentional burial, grave goods, symbolic objects, personal ornaments, ritual structures, and artistic representation demonstrates that early humans possessed sophisticated symbolic cultures. Some of these practices may have had religious significance, particularly where the treatment of the dead suggests beliefs concerning personhood, social identity, or existence beyond death. Nevertheless, archaeological remains rarely allow researchers to determine precisely what prehistoric people believed.

It is therefore problematic to describe human religious history as a simple progression from animism to polytheism and finally to monotheism. Different societies developed different combinations of beliefs concerning spirits, ancestors, animals, supernatural forces, and gods. Some societies have possessed relatively elaborate pantheons, while others have emphasized ancestors or localized supernatural beings. Religious evolution has been diverse rather than linear.

Nevertheless, an important pattern emerges. Humans appear to have possessed ritual and symbolic behaviour long before the emergence of the large-scale religious institutions familiar from historical civilizations. This suggests that religion did not originate as a fully developed theological system. Instead, increasingly complex religious concepts appear to have emerged from older forms of symbolic cognition, ritual practice, and social interaction.

These developments also transformed religion.

Monumental ritual architecture provides some of the clearest archaeological evidence of this process. Sites such as Göbekli Tepe demonstrate that substantial communal ritual construction occurred in the early Neolithic, during a period of profound economic and social transformation. Such sites complicate simplistic assumptions that large-scale religious institutions necessarily appeared only after fully developed agricultural states. They instead suggest a complex relationship between ritual, communal organization, and emerging sedentary societies.

As settlements grew, religious practices could become institutionalized. Temples could accumulate wealth, religious specialists could emerge, and ritual authority could become intertwined with political authority. In Mesopotamia and Egypt, for example, temples became important economic and administrative institutions as well as centres of worship.

This development is significant for a naturalistic account of religion. Religious ideas did not exist independently of the societies that transmitted them. Religious institutions were embedded in economic systems, political hierarchies, and social relationships. Concepts of the divine consequently developed alongside the institutions through which those concepts were expressed and maintained.

This does not establish that the gods worshipped by these societies did not exist. It does, however, demonstrate that the forms in which gods were conceived and worshipped were strongly influenced by human social organization.

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3. Agriculture, Settlement, and the Institutionalization of Religion

The transition from mobile hunter-gatherer societies to settled agricultural communities represented one of the most profound transformations in human history. Permanent settlements permitted population growth, economic specialization, accumulation of resources, and increasingly complex forms of political organization.

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4. From Spirits and Gods to Monotheism

4.1 Religious plurality in the ancient world

The ancient world was characterized by enormous religious diversity. Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Canaanite, Greek, Roman, and other societies developed complex religious systems involving multiple gods, divine beings, ancestors, and supernatural forces.

The gods themselves frequently reflected the social structures of the societies that worshipped them. Gods could be represented as kings, warriors, parents, judges, or rulers. They could possess personalities, desires, rivalries, and loyalties analogous to those of human beings.

This anthropomorphic character is important because it suggests that human societies conceptualized supernatural beings using categories already familiar from human social life.

Yet the emergence of monotheism was not a simple evolutionary replacement of polytheism. The history of monotheism is complex. The religious reforms associated with the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten represent one striking experiment with exclusive devotion to the solar deity Aten, although the reform was relatively short-lived. The development of Israelite religion followed a different historical trajectory, involving changing conceptions of Yahweh and the gradual emergence of increasingly exclusive Yahwism. Christianity and Islam subsequently developed within very different historical and intellectual circumstances.

The diversity of these developments is itself significant. Rather than revealing a single inevitable movement toward one universal conception of God, the archaeological and historical record shows repeated processes of religious transformation.

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5. The Anthropomorphic Character of God

One of the most striking characteristics of human religion is the extent to which supernatural beings resemble human persons.

Gods frequently possess:

•    intentions;
•    knowledge;
•    desires;
•    anger;
•    love;
•    jealousy;
•    compassion;
•    moral preferences;
•    the capacity to reward and punish;
•    relationships with individuals and communities.

These attributes make supernatural beings comprehensible to human beings because they are expressed through the same conceptual categories used to understand other people.

The anthropomorphic character of religion is not limited to one tradition. It appears repeatedly across human cultures. Even highly abstract theological conceptions of God often employ personal language, describing God as knowing, willing, loving, commanding, or judging.

This raises an important philosophical question: if the human mind constructs its understanding of an allegedly transcendent being through categories derived from human experience, how confidently can those descriptions be assumed to represent the intrinsic nature of such a being?

The answer need not be that anthropomorphic descriptions are necessarily false. Religious philosophers have long argued that statements about God may be analogical rather than literal. Nevertheless, anthropomorphism presents a serious epistemological problem. Human beings have no obvious alternative vocabulary with which to describe a personal supernatural entity. Consequently, descriptions of God may reveal at least as much about human cognition and culture as they do about the supposed object of belief.

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6. Cognitive Foundations of Religious Belief

Anthropology alone cannot explain why religious ideas are so persistent. Cognitive science provides an additional perspective.

Human beings are highly social organisms. We constantly infer the intentions, beliefs, and desires of other agents. This capacity is essential for navigating human society. We also tend to interpret ambiguous events in terms of agency and intention.

Such cognitive tendencies can make supernatural-agent concepts particularly intuitive.
An unexplained event can be interpreted as the action of an invisible agent. A storm can be attributed to a supernatural being. Illness can be understood as punishment. An unexpected recovery can be interpreted as divine intervention. Dreams can be experienced as encounters with deceased relatives or supernatural entities.

These interpretations do not require deliberate deception. They can arise naturally from ordinary cognitive processes.

Religious concepts also possess cultural advantages that allow them to be transmitted between generations. Stories concerning agents who possess unusual powers, know hidden information, or punish violations of moral rules can be memorable and socially significant. Rituals reinforce group identity and provide repeated opportunities for cultural transmission.

This does not demonstrate that supernatural agents are impossible. A cognitive explanation of belief is not itself a metaphysical disproof. It does, however, remove the need to regard religious belief as inexplicable evidence of divine revelation.

If ordinary cognitive mechanisms can explain why humans repeatedly generate supernatural concepts, then the existence of those concepts is no longer surprising even under a naturalistic worldview.

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7. Religion and Material Conditions

The relationship between religion and material circumstances has long been emphasized by materialist thinkers, most notably Karl Marx.

Marx's analysis of religion cannot be reduced to the claim that people simply invent gods because life is unpleasant. His broader argument connects religious consciousness with alienation, social relations, and the material organization of society.

From this perspective, religious beliefs can function simultaneously as explanations of the world and responses to human suffering. They can provide consolation, moral structure, community, and hope while also reinforcing existing social relationships.

Anthropological evidence is broadly compatible with the proposition that religious practices are influenced by material and social conditions. Religious institutions require people, resources, buildings, rituals, and systems of transmission. Changes in political organization and economic life can therefore alter religious institutions and ideas.

The political dimension of religion is particularly important. Rulers have repeatedly claimed divine authorization for political authority. Kings and emperors have been represented as chosen by gods, descended from gods, or possessing sacred status. Religious institutions have likewise been used to legitimize social hierarchies.

Yet the relationship between material conditions and religion is reciprocal rather than one-directional. Religion can also influence economic behavior, political organization, and social norms. A sophisticated materialist analysis should therefore avoid claiming that every religious belief is simply determined by economic circumstances.

The stronger argument is that religious concepts are not produced in a social vacuum. They develop within particular material, political, and cultural environments.
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8. Religious Diversity as an Epistemological Problem

The enormous diversity of religious belief presents an important challenge to claims of straightforward divine revelation.

Human societies have worshipped thousands of different supernatural beings and have developed mutually incompatible accounts of the nature of reality. Some traditions have emphasized a single personal creator; others have recognized multiple gods; others have conceived ultimate reality in impersonal terms; still others have rejected the existence of a creator altogether.

This diversity does not logically demonstrate that all religious claims are false. The fact that humans disagree about a proposition does not establish that there is no truth concerning it.
It does, however, create a serious epistemological problem.

If a particular religious tradition claims that its conception of God is self-evidently true or uniquely revealed, why should we accept that claim when comparable religious traditions make mutually incompatible claims with similar confidence?

The geographical distribution of religious belief is also significant. A person’s religion has historically been strongly influenced by the society into which that person was born. Individuals born into different cultures have therefore often inherited radically different conceptions of the divine.

This suggests that culture plays a powerful role in determining what human beings regard as religious truth.

Consequently, religious diversity weakens the argument that the widespread human belief in God constitutes straightforward evidence for a universally accessible divine reality. At minimum, it suggests that human knowledge of the divine, if such knowledge exists, is heavily mediated by culture.

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9. Science and the Decline of Supernatural Explanation

The expansion of scientific knowledge has transformed humanity’s understanding of the natural world.

Phenomena once attributed directly to supernatural agency can now be explained through natural processes. Astronomy explains planetary motion without requiring divine intervention. Meteorology explains storms through atmospheric processes. Evolutionary biology explains the diversification of life through mechanisms such as natural selection, mutation, and genetic inheritance.

Neuroscience increasingly explains aspects of human perception, emotion, and cognition in terms of physical processes in the brain.

This development has reduced the explanatory territory historically occupied by supernatural explanations.

However, it would be a mistake to argue that science has thereby logically disproved God.

Science generally operates through methodological naturalism: it investigates phenomena by seeking natural causes that can be observed, tested, and compared. The philosophical proposition that only natural reality exists is a stronger claim and cannot simply be identified with the scientific method itself.

Nevertheless, the growth of naturalistic explanations has an important philosophical consequence. The existence of a natural explanation for a phenomenon reduces the explanatory necessity of invoking supernatural intervention.

The history of science therefore presents a cumulative challenge to conceptions of God that depend upon unexplained natural phenomena as evidence of divine action. The more successfully natural processes explain the universe and human beings, the less persuasive becomes the argument that unexplained phenomena should automatically be attributed to supernatural agency.

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10. The Problem of the Personal God

The naturalistic critique becomes particularly significant when applied to the concept of a personal God who possesses human-like psychological characteristics while simultaneously being described as immaterial, timeless, and transcendent.

A personal being is normally understood in terms of consciousness, intentionality, knowledge, and agency. Human consciousness, however, is intimately associated with biological organization.This creates a philosophical question rather than an established scientific contradiction:

How could a completely immaterial being possess mental states analogous to those of embodied biological organisms?

The traditional theological answer is that divine consciousness is fundamentally different from human consciousness. God does not need a biological brain because divine mind is understood as a fundamentally different kind of reality.

That response is logically possible. It cannot simply be dismissed by appealing to neuroscience.

Nevertheless, it shifts the burden of explanation. If the human concepts of thought, intention, love, and moral judgment are derived from embodied experience, then describing an immaterial deity using those concepts requires an account of how such properties can meaningfully apply to a being radically unlike anything humans ordinarily experience.

The problem is therefore not simply that God is anthropomorphic. The deeper problem is epistemological: how can human beings know that concepts derived from human psychology accurately describe a transcendent reality?

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11. Naturalistic Explanations and the Burden of Proof

The cumulative evidence considered here supports a naturalistic explanation for many aspects of religion.

Humans possess cognitive mechanisms capable of generating supernatural-agent concepts. Cultural systems transmit and modify those concepts. Social institutions organize religious practices. Material circumstances influence the forms religious institutions take. Political systems can appropriate religious authority. Historical events transform theological ideas. Different societies produce radically different conceptions of the divine.

None of these observations individually disproves God.

Together, however, they weaken an important argument for God’s existence: the argument from the ubiquity and persistence of religious belief.

If humans naturally generate supernatural concepts through identifiable psychological and cultural mechanisms, then widespread belief in supernatural beings is no longer evidence that such beings must actually exist.

The distinction is important. There is a difference between saying:

Humans believe in God because God exists.

and saying:

Humans believe in God because human cognition and culture make religious concepts possible, attractive, and transmissible.

The second proposition can be investigated empirically. The first requires an additional metaphysical argument.

Therefore, anyone arguing that God exists must provide evidence or reasoning beyond the simple observation that humans have believed in God for a long time.

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12. What Anthropology Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About God

A rigorous anthropological argument should recognize its own limits.

Archaeologists cannot excavate the non-existence of God. Anthropologists cannot observe a society and determine directly whether its supernatural beliefs correspond to an external metaphysical reality. Cognitive scientists can investigate the mechanisms involved in religious cognition, but those mechanisms cannot establish whether the object of a particular religious experience exists.

The appropriate conclusion is therefore more modest but also more defensible.

Anthropology demonstrates that religious concepts are historically variable and culturally mediated. Archaeology demonstrates that ritual and symbolic behaviour have deep prehistoric roots and that religious institutions developed alongside increasingly complex societies. Cognitive science provides plausible mechanisms through which supernatural concepts can arise and spread. History demonstrates repeated transformations of gods and religious institutions in response to changing social circumstances.

These findings make a naturalistic account of religion highly plausible. They do not constitute a deductive proof of atheism.

The distinction is essential because the strongest skeptical argument does not require such a proof. If the evidence demonstrates that human beings possess sufficient psychological, cultural, and historical mechanisms to generate religious concepts without requiring supernatural intervention, then the existence of those concepts cannot itself serve as evidence that their supernatural referents exist.

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13. Conclusion

The history of religion reveals not a single, uniform human discovery of God but an extraordinary diversity of supernatural concepts shaped by human cognition, culture, environment, and social organization. From prehistoric ritual behaviour to the monumental temples of ancient civilizations, and from localized spirits and ancestors to sophisticated monotheistic traditions, religious ideas have repeatedly changed as human societies have changed.

Anthropological and archaeological evidence therefore provides strong grounds for understanding religion as a human cultural phenomenon. Cognitive science adds a further dimension by identifying psychological tendencies that can make supernatural-agent concepts intuitive and transmissible. Materialist and historical approaches demonstrate how religious institutions are embedded within economic, political, and social structures.

These observations do not logically establish that no transcendent deity exists. Such a conclusion would go beyond what anthropology or archaeology can demonstrate. Nor does the existence of natural explanations for religious belief prove that every religious experience is false.

The evidence does, however, undermine a different and more common claim: that the existence, universality, or persistence of religious belief constitutes evidence in itself for the existence of God.

Human beings clearly construct concepts of gods. They inherit those concepts from cultures, modify them according to changing circumstances, express them through human language, and understand them using cognitive mechanisms that evolved for navigating the social and natural world. The striking resemblance between many gods and the societies that worship them therefore presents a serious challenge to the assumption that religious concepts are straightforward representations of an independently existing supernatural reality.

The most defensible conclusion is consequently not that anthropology has empirically disproved God, but that it has substantially weakened the epistemological foundations upon which belief in particular gods is often based. If a transcendent God exists, demonstrating that fact requires an argument that goes beyond the historical existence of religion and beyond humanity’s capacity to imagine supernatural beings.

The question of God’s existence therefore remains a philosophical one. But anthropology, archaeology, cognitive science, and history collectively suggest that the human tendency to believe in gods can be explained without first assuming that gods exist. That distinction places the burden of proof firmly on those who claim that humanity’s concepts of the divine correspond to an objective supernatural reality.

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