Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

We 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.

Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society.

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).