Why Do So Many People Believe in God?

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Why This Topic and Why Now?

We have observed a groundswell of interest and a real need for a non-religious conversation about God. The world is desperate for meaning, purpose, and wisdom; a glance at social media will show you that the struggle is real. Humans are by nature religious. We have an innate need to worship something. That might be health, politics, beauty, or money, but it might be something deeper and more meaningful.

If you ask 1,000 people why they believe in God, you are likely to get 1,000 different answers. This book presents 70 of them. Ron Kardos and Bruce Licht spread their net far and wide, reaching out to thought leaders – including scientists, mathematicians, political leaders, journalists, corporate executives, artists, radio hosts, and professors – whose positions, perspectives, and backgrounds inform their belief, and whose responses speak to our hearts and minds. Their essays touch on beauty, nature, music, physics, biology, chemistry, technology, archeology, and much more, making this a must-read for everyone, believers or not.

This book is not about religion. The writers are professionals in their fields, but their one-page essays are personal. Perhaps no single essay will provide you with all of the answers, but together, they present a compelling argument for why so many intelligent, thoughtful people believe.

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Rabbi David Aaron

Visionary, Author, Paradigm Shifter

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Fred Amoroso

Captain of Industry, Chairman of Yahoo, Senior Executive at IBM (Retired)

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Andi Arnovitz

World Renowned Multi-Media Conceptual Artist

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Jeff Astrof

TV Producer, Showrunner, Writer of “Friends”

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Aleeza ben Shalom

The Netflix Jewish Matchmaker

Mayim Bialik, Ph.D.

Neuroscientist, Author, Actress, Jeopardy! Host

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Joseph Bingold

Brain Health Start-Up Founder, CEO of Medical Device Tech Company

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Sara Blau

Artist, Educator, Prolific Author of Children’s Books

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Mark Brazill

Hollywood Comedy Writer, Creator of “That ’70’s Show”

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

International Legal Authority, Senior Lecturer, Modern-Day Sage

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Rabbi Chaim Bucsko

Scholar, Philosopher, ‘The Average Rabbi’

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Rabbi Yitzchok Caplan

Author, Educator, ‘Ambassador for God’ in Jerusalem

David John Casper

Pro Football Hall of Fame, Pro Bowl 1976-1980, First Team All-Pro, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979

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Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith

Media Giant, Author, Truth Seeker

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Patricia Culligan, Ph.D.

Dean of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering

Alan Dershowitz

Author, Law Professor, ‘Most Famous Lawyer in the World’

Seth Dillon

CEO “The Babylon Bee,” Satirist, Venture Capitalist

Sarah Dukes

Woman of Valor, Mother of Six, Musician

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Michael R. Egnor, M.D.

Neurosurgeon and Senior Fellow at the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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Larry Elder

National Talk Show Host, Presidential Candidate, Author, Filmmaker

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Jeremy England, Ph.D.

Physicist, Ordained Rabbi, Rhodes Scholar, Oppenheim Award Winner, Modern Day Charles Darwin

Elie Feder, Ph.D.

Mathematics Ph.D., Ordained Rabbi, Cohost of “Physics to God” Podcast

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Rabbi Yitzchok Feldman

Silicon Valley Rabbi

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Nomi Freeman

Educator, Inspirational Speaker, Expert in Near-Death Experiences

Ambassador David M. Friedman

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, National Security Medal and Meritorious Civilian Service Medal Recipient

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Rabbi Manis Friedman

The Most Popular Rabbi on YouTube

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David B. Go, Ph.D.

Award-Winning Engineer, Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Yossi Klein Halevi

Award-Winning Author, Op-Ed Writer for Leading Media Outlets, Co-Director of the Muslim Leadership Initiative

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Julie Hartman

National Media Host, Award-Winning Essayist

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Kabir Helminski

One of the 500 Most Influential Muslims

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Leonard Jacobs

Publisher, Champion of Human Development

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Rabbi Simon Jacobson

Founder of The Meaningful Life Center, Best-Selling Author, Sage

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Itty Kay

International Women’s Educator and Mentor

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Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen

Philosopher, Writer, Jewish Continuity Activist

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Raymond J. Leopold, Ph.D.

Master Inventor for Motorola Global Telecommunications, Engineering Hall of Fame, Laureate for Space

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Daniel E. Levy, Ph.D.

MIT Ph.D., Chemist, Disease-Curing Scientist

Senator Joseph Lieberman

U.S. Senator, Democratic Nominee for Vice President (2000)

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Sal Litvak

Hollywood Director, Founder of the Accidental Talmudist

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Barak Lurie

Former Atheist, Talk Show Host

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Rabbi Shmuel Marcus

Spiritual Leader for Chabad in Los Alamitos, California, Lead Singer of “8th Day”

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Rabbi Yosef Marcus

Best-Selling Author, Internationally Recognized Rabbi, Rock Star Vocalist

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Chana Margulies

Author, Relationship Counselor, Kabbalist

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Jack McCauley

Artificial Intelligence Expert, Professor at UC Berkeley, Engineer of Guitar Hero

John E. McNulty

Silicon Valley CEO, GM of Intel (Retired)

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Sivan Rahav Meir

Israel’s Most Beloved Journalist, Author of “The Daily Thought”

James Morris, Ph.D.

Harvard Ph.D., Award-Winning Author and Poet

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George Noory

“Coast to Coast AM” Radio Host, Curator of the Curious

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Donald D. O'Neal

Nuclear Engineer, Stanford MBA, Equity Portfolio Manager Actively Managing Billions

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Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo, Ph.D.

Logician, Proof Theorist, Verifier of Gödel’s Proof of God

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Luba Ahuva Perlov

Artist, Life Coach, Author

David Porush, Ph.D.

Entrepreneur, Professor, Futurist, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

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Dennis Prager

National Radio Show Host, Syndicated Columnist, Orchestral Conductor

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Ari Sacher

Rocket Scientist, Iron Dome Development Team

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David Sacks

Award-Winning Hollywood Comedy Writer

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Santiago Schnell, Ph.D.

Dean of the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, Internationally Renowned Mathematical Biologist

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Gerald Schroeder, Ph.D.

Nuclear Physicist, ‘Expert’ on God

Raphael Shore

Award-Winning Film Producer, Founder of the Clarion Project

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Maz Siam

Storyteller, Hollywood Actor

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Rabbi Ken Spiro

World Historian with Humor and Heart

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Samuel Sprow

Recovering Addict, Entrepreneur, Mensch

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Admiral James Stavridis, USN

Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (Retired), Chair of the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation

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Paul Stelzer, M.D.

Pioneering Cardiothoracic Surgeon

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Rabbi Avraham Stolik

The Jewish Indiana Jones

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Gitty Stolik

Author, Educator, Promoter of Optimism and Joyful Living

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David Suissa

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the LA Jewish Journal

Michael Sullivan, Ph.D.

Colonel (Retired), Military Expert, Professor of U.S. Military Strategies and Tactics, Star Wars Enthusiast

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Dr. Frank Turek

Former U.S. Naval Aviator, Social Commentator on Atheism and Belief

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Ronny Vance

Former President of Geffen Music, Present-Day Seeker

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Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

Prolific, Innovative, Dynamic Torah Educator, Podcaster, Author

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Joel Wolf, M.D.

Interventional Radiologist, Ordained Rabbi, Talmudic Explorer

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Aaron Zimmer

Physicist, Ordained Rabbi, Commodity Trader, Unraveler of the Enigmas of the Universe, Cohost of “Physics to God” Podcast

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Chaya Rivka Zwolinski

Author, Teacher of Joy and Optimism

Excerpts from the Book

“Is there a God? I certainly think so. In fact, I believe that everyone, somewhere inside themselves, thinks so too. I believe that within each human being, there’s something nestled deep down in our psyche that God has placed within us; a hidden sense of a Divine being, a Creator, something that ultimately helps us in our daily lives and helps us to discern right from wrong, good from evil. As humans with free will, we can decide to purposefully ignore those “feelings,” “thoughts,” and “intuitions,” or even convince ourselves that they don’t exist. I believe however that if we are truly honest with ourselves, we all in some way have to admit that they are there…”
Fred Amoroso Captain of Industry, Chairman of Yahoo, Senior Executive at IBM
“I believe that God exists the same way I believe that gravity exists. I believe that if I throw a tennis ball from a very tall building, it’s going to fall at a rate of -9.8 m/s. Always and forever. I believe that God exists the same way I believe that the sun is going to come up tomorrow. I believe that the waves in the ocean will keep doing their wave thing no matter what I pray for, think about, or try to manipulate.

That’s God. God is what I trust to be true when nothing else can – or should – be trusted. God is all of the Forces of Nature in God’s Universe. I don’t have to “make” gravity or centripetal force; they just are. I don’t have to even justify their existence. These things existed before there was anything else, before there was anyone to observe them, or measure them, or write equations to describe them. Always was, always is, and always will be…”

Mayim Bialik, Ph.D. Neuroscientist, Author, Actress, Jeopardy! Host
“If humankind has this immeasurable ability to construct and create, from where did we get such power? Whence are we able to see something beyond our world that does not exist, and bring it to existence? Why can we envision what is beyond our reach and express it in art and literature and music and speech? It is in our ability to create that we can not only imagine the Divine, but find truth in the Divine. It is in the creation by the hands and minds of humankind over centuries and millennia, that I find awe. And in this awe, I find God…”
David Go Award-Winning Engineer, Professor at the University of Notre Dame
“It’s curious that we recognize this Intelligence in the natural world and yet we imagine that the realm of inner human experience is merely random and purposeless. Is the Intelligence that is visible in the depths of the oceans absent in the depths of individual consciousness? Is the world of physical nature governed by a “universal intelligence,” while the inner life of the human being is random and accidental, without design, meaning, and purpose? Is the human psyche not equipped to know something about this other dimension of existence? Could it be that we can experience and communicate with this dimension of Intelligent Beneficence…”
Kabir Helminski One of the 500 Most Influential Muslims
“As a scientist with a fourteen-year academic history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I am often asked how I can believe in God. My reply is quite simple: How can I not believe in God? The very institution that has researched our cosmic origins, NASA, has discovered God, or if not directly God, then at least the fingerprint of God in the metaphysical force that created our magnificent physical universe from nothing physical. And NASA describes this revelation in a diagram.

What we learn in this extraordinary visual piece of NASA-generated knowledge is that our universe had a beginning, a fact that Albert Einstein’s equations indicated but against which he argued for a decade, initially insisting that our universe must be static and eternal. It took a journey of 9,000 kilometers from Germany to California, to visit with Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason and observe the evidence firsthand, to convince him otherwise…”

Gerald Schroeder, Ph.D. Nuclear Physicist, ‘Expert’ on God
“Materialism cannot explain how our world began. Even if it could, chance evolution cannot tell us how life, even in its simplest form, began. The probability of the universe’s conditions being just right for that is mathematically impossible. Chance cannot explain how a simple organism like a cell came to exist, ‘went digital’ with awesomely sophisticated DNA code, and then evolved into complex human life.

Sir Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term “Big Bang,” offered his famous “junkyard tornado” analogy, that the possibility that chemical (random) evolution could have produced the first cell from lifelessness is comparable to “the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard could assemble a Boeing 747…”

Rabbi Raphael Shore Award-Winning Film Producer, Founder of the Clarion Project
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