Primatology

Evidence for the Existence of God and Santa Claus

Evidence for the Existence of God and Santa Claus

While the existence of a god may appear hard to reconcile with a scientific worldview, the impact of a cultural belief in a god or gods is hardly controversial. Just as the Santa Claus narrative results in many gifts “From Santa” at the prescribed time, the cultural enforcement of the laws of the Christian and other gods can be viewed as a crowd-sourced effort to establish moral expectations. Unfortunately, those expectations are millennia old and do not account for our environmental problems. However, there is no scientifically accepted theory of beliefs that would establish a stable society while satisfying environmental concerns. We, therefore, need a discussion, both respectful and critical, about the existing crowd-sourced gods.