Religion: Biological Accident, Adaptation -- or Both: "The areas of the brain involved in religious thought are not a separate region. An fMRI study showed that the region that is active when people listen to statements about God is the same area that is used to understand what other people are thinking. This suggests that religious thought may have begun as a byproduct of other kinds of thinking.
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