In order to give an antidote to the previous post, here is a lecture by Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford. This is his Bio 150/250, Spring 2002 Human Behavioral Biology: The Biology of Religion course.
The stuff about religion enters around minute 10 while he is talking about schizophrenia.
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I found this very interesting. I listened to quite a lot last night and I hope to get time to listen to more. I found it almost frightening to think that the religious leaders of the past could have been in this biological condition of mild schizophrenia. I grew up in a church and still find myself talking to God on occasion, so that makes this hard to take and at the same time; it is exciting to think that at least some of the worlds religions were started by these kind of people. I just have to learn more about all this; so into this evolution biology thing right now..
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