Does God really exist or is he just a way of thinking? Is there really a special reason that you are here? Or, alternatively, are God, souls and destiny simply a set of seductive cognitive illusions, one that can be accounted for by the unusual evolution of the human brain? The God Instinct addresses head-on some of life's biggest questions.
In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, Jesse Bering unravels the evolutionary mystery of why we grapple for meaning, purpose and destiny in life. Bering proposes and believes that God is a way of thinking.
It explores how people's everyday thoughts and actions betray an innate tendency to reason as though God were deeply invested in their life.