Why We Believe in Gods
Andy Thomson gives his talk titled ‘Why We Believe in Gods‘ at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D. is Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI), Staff Psychiatrist at the University of Virginia Student Health Services and in private practice. In this presentation he puts forward his compelling ideas of how belief in unseen deities is actually a by-product of many of the evolutionary mechanisims used in our early survival at the dawn of our species.
This is all very interesting to me of course but I get a sense of dogma from this. I like to think anything is possible and we have much more to learn about the universe and our connection to it as humans. Things may take centuries to prove and even then there may be other theories. We believe something is so until someone suggests that it could be otherwise. Like defining ‘crazy’ as something you don’t understand or agree with. A point can be proved in two opposing ways by two different scientists. There is more to learn humans.