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From the “I guess I should be offended but this is pretty funny” department: God Finally Gives Shout-Out Back To All His Niggaz.

A review of yet another one of those religion is all in the brain books. Have any of these guys thought about how, instead of somehow disproving religion, such evidence actually supports it? I am not surprised to hear that science is bearing out my belief that spirituality is wired into our brains. We are made specifically to love God and to do otherwise is unnatural. I guess if you are hooked on the idea of the supernatural as a separate, ghost-like, “spiritual world,” you might be threatened by such theses. But I see the supernatural and natural worlds as intertwined (or embedded for you mathematicians out there). Such attempts to debunk my faith just end up supporting it.

The reviewer agrees:

“Boyer’s neurological approach to the phenomena of religion is helpful, because it reminds us how deeply faith is conditioned by the bias of our minds. But it neglects our capacity to build on these to produce ideas and experiences that may not be supernatural but which are certainly transcendent. As an art form, religion at its best and most creative has exploited these innate natural habits, in the same way as poetry has transfigured our ability to speak.”