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The Bible skeptic Michael, whom we have been engaged with for many weeks, asks a very important question: “Isn’t all religion just a mind game?” After all, the German philosopher Karl Marx famously said, “Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sign of the oppressed creature, the heart of the heartless world, and the soul of the soulless condition.” No doubt, critics of religion have long argued that it is a mind game we play with ourselves to soothe a fearful soul in a hostile world. Survival of the fittest selects those with the best coping mechanisms, right? No doubt, as soon as prehistoric man evolved enough to realize that everyone dies, his mind evolved to find a resolution. Just so happened that religion fit the bill. Darwin himself considered there to be “an evolutionary derivation of mind and morality” as a product of natural selection. In other words, Darwin thought belief in God was just a mind game. Very well then, let us begin once again from the common ground of modern science (twenty-first-century science, that is).
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