Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it, is there?

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hi there, I'm Jason Gottz and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

As far back as we're able to peer into human history, way past the written or pictorial record, into the grave sites of our most ancient ancestors, there's evidence of

what you might call spiritual or religious belief. From the idea of a separate soul to animal

spirits, to the anthropomorphization of trees and natural elements, pantheons of superhuman

gods, and ultimately the inscrutable, sometimes indivisible gods of monotheism.

We're homocredulous, creatures hardwired to believe in a deeper or higher reality that transcends

the evidence of our senses.

In his new book, God, a Human History, my guest today, Reza Aslan, looks at this history

of belief, asking not so much why,

but how we've made and remade God in our own image since our very beginnings. Welcome to think

again. Thanks for having me. The book is called God a human history. We are and we are not talking

about God, right? Well, it all depends on what you mean by God. And I think one of the

biggest goals that I had in writing this book was not just to sort of talk about the ways in which we have

conceived of God, you know, way back, you know, going deep, deep into our evolutionary history, but also to get us to

stop having these pointless arguments about whether or not God exists and have a much more,

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