Arken

Or it could be a useless remnant of something that was once helpful to our pre-human ancestors like the tailbone or the appendix.

jfryejr

The PBS Nova series went over temporal lobe seizures and religious events. People who have these basically think they're God or that they're having some profound religious experience. Here is the link...search for Sharon's interview to find where the god part starts (although the rest of the show is fantastic...):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2812mind.html

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Believing in a god might have just been something men developed to explain the unknown...and the idea stuck. Like being cornered by a Creationist, not being able to answer a question, and then "Aha, see...it's God that did/created/started event X because science can't explain it!"

I would be more willing to think we feel something bigger than ourselves and ascribe it to god because it's what we've been taught. The purpose of this feeling evolutionarily may have just been to increase our empathy to one another and increase cohesiveness (Although, a look around at religion today shoots my idea down).

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