<p>If you've taken part in a religious service, have you ever stopped to think about how people become believers? Where do the rituals come from? And what purpose does it all serve? This week, we bring you a 2018 episode with social psychologist <a href="https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/azim-shariff/">Azim Shariff</a>. He argues that we should consider religion from a Darwinian perspective, as an innovation that helped human societies to grow and flourish.&nbsp;</p>

Creating God

Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.