So what else did your talking snake tell you?

From a couple weeks ago... Scientific American guest blogger Jessica Fostvedt, a Biology and Religious Studies graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses Harold Camping and the reason humans fall for End of the World propheteers.

"Many neurologists have proposed the existence of a “God Spot”, a region of the brain linked to belief in the supernatural. Even though no such neural pathways were found that differed from those of non-believers, there is still much debate as to the origin of religion and its evolutionary significance."

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