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review of The God Delusion by R. T. Carroll

A Harris poll in June 2005 found that 64% of American adults believe human beings were created directly by God. 54% do not think human beings developed from earlier species

God on the Brain By Liz Tucker BBC Horizon 3/20/03

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A god is a being created by humans and given supernatural powers or attributes such as immortality, omniscience, telekinesis, and invisibility. These creations serve many purposes, such as imaginary protection from enemies or explanations for the origin of such things as good and evil, fire and wind, or life and death.

Gods are often the central figures around which religions are built. It is often claimed that religion began in fear and superstition. The same might be said for gods.

Some religions maintain that there is just one God and that all the gods of all religions except theirs were created by human beings. Yet, everyone who believes in a god of some sort believes their god is real.

Since gods are supernatural, they exist outside the bounds and laws of space and time. They can possess any of an infinite array of magical powers. Hence, there is no way to prove or disprove their reality. One might say: If gods exist, anything goes!

See also atheism, magical thinking, Satan, and theist.

further reading

• God's Total Quality Management Questionnaire

reader comments

Freud, Sigmund. The Future of an Illusion (1927).

Freud, Sigmund. The Future of an Illusion (1927).

Martin, Michael and Ricki Monnier. Editors. (2006). The Improbability of God. Prometheus.

Newberg, Andrew M.D., Eugene G. D'Aquili and Vince Rause. Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (Ballantine Books, 2001).

Smith, Homer. Man and His Gods, foreword by Albert Einstein (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952).

Stenger, Victor. (2007). God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist. Prometheus.

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