Anthropomorphism

Pascal Boyer argues that while there is a wide array of supernatural concepts f

behave much like people. The construction of gods and spirits like persons is one o
mythology, which is, in his opinion, more like a modern soap opera than other re
demonstrate through formalization that Boyer's explanatory model matches phy
intermediaries.[63] Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie contends that people project h
makes those aspects more familiar. Sigmund Freud also suggested that god concep

Likewise, Émile Durkheim was one of the earliest to suggest that gods represent

In line with this reasoning, psychologist Matt Rossano contends that when human
means of enforcing morality. In small groups, morality can be enforced by social f
enforce morality using social forces in much larger groups. Rossano indicates that
an effective strategy for restraining selfishness and building more cooperative grou

Existence
Arguments about the existence of God typically include empirical, deductive, an
 For while comets move in very eccentric orbs in all manner of positions, blin
planets move one and the same way in orbs concentric, some inconsiderable
may have arisen from the mutual actions of comets and planets on one ano
increase, till this system wants a reformation.[7 3]

Thomas Aquinas asserted that the existence of God is self-evident in itself, but n

proposition, "God exists", of itself is self-evident, for the predicate is the same as t
know the essence of God, the proposition is not self-evident to us; but needs to
more known to us, though less known in their nature—namely, by effects."[7 4] Th
God can be demonstrated. Briefly in the Summa theologiae and more extensively
considered in great detail five arguments for the existence of God, widely known a