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Why & How Humans Created God: Fear, Death, Culture, and the Birth of the Divine
Hardcover
Series: No God Required, Book 1
PhilosophyAtheism & AgnosticismReligion General
Publisher Price: $34.99
Publisher: Dr Prabhat Das
Published: Jun 6 2026
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why & How Humans Created God is the powerful first book in the seven-book series No God Required: How Science Explains Reality Without the Divine by Dr. Prabhat Das.
For thousands of years, human beings have looked at the sky, feared death, suffered disease, faced natural disasters, and searched for meaning in a mysterious world. Before science, people had few reliable answers. Thunder, lightning, earthquakes, floods, illness, dreams, birth, death, and consciousness all seemed to demand an invisible explanation. Across cultures and continents, humans created gods, spirits, myths, rituals, and sacred stories to explain what they did not yet understand.
This book explores that remarkable human story with clarity, compassion, and reason.
Dr. Prabhat Das explains how fear, imagination, ignorance of nature, tribal identity, authority, tradition, and the deep human need for comfort helped create religious belief. He does not mock believers or dismiss the emotional power of faith. Instead, he asks a deeper and more important question: Why did belief in God arise so widely in human history, and why does it continue even in the modern scientific age?
Written in simple, engaging language, this book shows how science gradually replaced supernatural explanations with natural ones. Disease became biology. Lightning became electricity. Life became evolution. The universe became a subject of cosmology. The mind became a field of neuroscience. Step by step, mystery did not disappear, but our explanations became more honest, testable, and powerful.
Why & How Humans Created God is not merely a book about atheism. It is a book about human curiosity, intellectual courage, and the long struggle to understand reality without surrendering reason. It invites readers to think clearly, question inherited beliefs, and see religion as a human creation shaped by history, psychology, culture, and the limits of early knowledge.
As the opening volume of No God Required, this book lays the foundation for the entire series. The later books will explore how science explains the universe, life, the mind, morality, meaning, and human progress without the need for divine intervention.
For readers who value science, reason, freedom of thought, and intellectual honesty, this book offers a clear and persuasive beginning. It is written for believers, doubters, skeptics, atheists, and anyone willing to ask one of the oldest questions in a fresh and fearless way:
Did God create humans, or did humans create God?
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