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The God Neurone

The human mind is hardwired to believe in God. That is the direction that current pscychological research is pointing in, according to Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the Centre for Anthropology and Mind, at Oxford University.

A wide range of studies of how children think, Barrett said in a seminar at Cambridge's Faraday Institute in November, accumulatively suggest that children are inclined to believe in God or gods - whatever they are taught by their ...

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