If naturalism accurately depicts reality, then human beings have overwhelmingly failed to perceive this fact. Though theistic belief has declined in the increasingly secular West, especially among college-educated millennials, a recent Pew Research study shows that 84 percent of the world’s population identifies with religious systems of belief, most of which contradict strict naturalism and many of which affirm some form of theism. Moreover, multiple studies across many populations indicate that human beings are hardwired for religious belief.29 Acceptance of the supernatural appears to be
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