You ever heard of Paul Bunyan? This is what is called a tall tale. Long ago, during the industrial revolution, people would tell stories around campfires. This was their only entertainment. Stories would spread and become more and more exaggerated. I am sure Paul Bunyan was a real man, who was above average height who did some pretty cool things. Stories started to spread about him, and since a story about an above-average-sized man weren't very entertaining, he was soon 100 ft tall, and had a blue ox named Babe. Well then people started asking questions, like "how did they feed him?" now any storyteller worth his beans would have to know the answer, so they made up this whole elaborate story about making a giant fire, and a giant griddle, and strapping slabs of bacon to their feet and skating around, like on ice. That was 100 years ago, and has never been translated, and is about a man. The bible is 2000 years old, has been translated about 4 times thru VERY different languages (five if you count the NIV) and is about an omnipotent, omniscient being whom we cannot possibly comprehend. and if that doesn't convince you how is this: If you didn’t KNOW about Jesus, what he did, and about god, or heaven, or hell , or sin, would you go to hell? And if so that’s not a very godly thing to do, send an innocent person to hell for something they didn't know. And if not, why are Christians going around telling everyone? They’re SENDING PEOPLE TO HELL! Also consider this: more people have been tortured, maimed, and killed in the name of god than for any other reason in history. If god is so powerful why does he need scare tactics like hell to get believers? And what kind of merciful god would send a primitive being to hell for doing what it is in his nature to do? Lie, cheat, steal, kill, have sex, these are all instincts we are born with, essential to our survival, albeit, no longer necessary due to our societal wellbeing. 2000 years ago no one knew about regenerative fading, so no one thought to ask how an entire species could spawn from 1 or 3 couples. (Adam/eve- Jonah, his sons, their wives) now you ask these questions you get, "god gave them super DNA" or "god fixed this somehow” hmm.. Now tell me how they fed Paul Bunyan again? Ever heard the urban legend that scientists can recreate the sensation of god, spiritual oneness, presence of loved ones, long dark tunnel, and moments of clarity often reported by people who have near-death experiences in a lab, using electromagnetic fields applied to your brain? Pretty crazy one, eh? Well guess what, its true. Dr. Michael A. Persinger, at the University of Ontario, Canada studies the effects of environmental factors on the human brain. Guess what? It takes very little to have a spiritual experience; it could be something as innocuous as an alarm clock or even a wristwatch. You want to know why nearly every society in human history has had a belief system of an all-knowing overseer? It is a brain thing; humans are the only species in history to have a brain advanced enough to foresee their own death. We know we’ll die someday. At the same time, we are psychologically incapable of grasping the sensation that one day we may not be conscious, have memories, feelings, emotions, or awareness of our surroundings. It is for this reason that every human civilization has had a concept of a soul and of life after death. Scientists call this “the gap” the difference between our ability to foresee our deaths, and our unwillingness to accept it. Ever wake up in the morning and not remembered going to sleep? That’s what death is like, minus the waking-up part. Want to know why humans believe in God? Because our ego won’t allow us to see a species as superior to us. Anything we don’t understand, we deify and fear. Over the years humans have deified the stars, the moon, the sun, the other planets, the weather, even animals. Imagine aquarium fish could think, remember, etc. like us. What do you think they would think about us? What do they know, we exist, we bring food, that’s about it, they don’t know what we look like, they can’t see due to the reflection on the inside of the aquarium. They receive sporadic proof of our existence, food from the sky, net swooping down to take away dead loved ones, they must think since we live longer than them that we live forever, know everything, created the universe, etc. Makes you think twice about your thoughts on god.

EDIT: NOAH, not jonah, my bad.

EDIT: to clarify the brain-god connection, here: