People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
Michael ShermerWe want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.
Michael ShermerBut there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
Michael Shermer