The question: Are we hard-wired to believe in God? James Fowler, author of Stages of Faith, claimed that we are genetically disposed to have faith. And William James said, “All of our raptures and our drynesses, our longings and pantings, our questions and beliefs . . . are equally organically founded.”
In this article in the New York Times Robin Henig explores the question of evolution, cognition, anthropology and the belief in God. A good review of current thinkers and thinking on the question, and nicely written.
