Now I know why we say "Bappa Morya...!"
We are born believers. Human beings are programmed by evolution to believe in God because it gives them a better chance of survival, researchers have claimed. The idea has emerged from studies of the way children's brains develop and of the workings of the brain during the religious experiences. Researchers suggest that during evolution groups of humans with religious tendencies began to benefit from their beliefs, perhaps because they tended to work toegther better and so stood a greater chance of survival. Richard Dawkins has long argued that religious beleifs results from poor education and childhood "indoctrination". But research has also proved that children have a natural intutive thinking about supernatural existence without the "indoctrination". As they grow up they overlay these beliefs with more rational approaches but the tendence to illogical supernatural beliefs remains as religion. These findings are by Prof. Bruce Hood, professor of developmental