Darwin, with a candor that is rare in atheist, wrote, “The horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.” Nonetheless Darwinists, such as Christopher Dawkins and E. O. Wilson and many others, since they are unable to prove that a creator does not exist desperately seek a natural explanation for why people believe in a creator.
Dawkins suggested that belief is caused by “hyperactivity in a particular node of the brain” speculating that “the idea of immortality survives and spreads because it caters to wishful thinking.”
The psychologist Steven Pinker offers up a “God module” in the brain that predisposes people to believe in a creator.
Ironically, evolutionary science itself dismisses Dawkins’ wishful thinking argument. A freezing person will not survive by simply thinking he is warm, and when confronted by a lion, a man will not emerge alive by imagining it is a rabbit. Such nonsense is not going to persist in the species as these individuals will either freeze to death or be devoured. As for a God module in the brain, Dinesh D’Souza asks, “If a God module produces an irrational belief in God, how about a “Darwin module” that produces an irrational belief in God modules?”
Furthermore, if we cannot trust our belief-forming faculties to tell us the truth about God, why should we trust them to tell us the truth about anything, including evolutionary science?
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