Andy Thomson explains the psychological mechanisms behind belief in his talk titled 'Why We Believe in Gods' at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Check out his book by the same name: http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Believe-God-Concise/dp/0984493212
Filmed and edited by Josh Timonen.
See more at http://RichardDawkins.net
Also see Richard Dawkins talk from this convention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbza-UtseE0
@SoEFleX Basically, as in evolution, the strongest survive, so the religions that get the mechanism right survive and the religions that don't fail.
mrannen1958 1 week ago
Thanks for the video, but these mechanisms that religion uses. Who did they know how to exploited them?
SoEFleX 1 month ago