Wired is running an article that examines where religion came from. They basically look at it in anthropological, psychological and sociological terms to discover why humans developed religions. The one glaring oversight is the idea that religion developed because it's actually real. There is a distinct possibility that people started to believe in God, because God actually exists. Then again, maybe I'm just a simplistic child that can't understand higher thinking.
I find it amusing that most researchers looking to "explain an irrational belief in God" come up against the "God-shaped hole in the human heart" that preachers have been talking about for generations. C.S. Lewis would argue that just as hunger of the stomach is evidence that food exists somewhere, hunger of the spirit is evidence that God exists somewhere.
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