Fairly stringent critique on the "genetic basis" for religion over on Language Log. There is no God gene. There's also a difference between religiosity and institutionalism, as opposed to the active practice of faith or trust in a divine being or motive-force-for-good. Institutionalism and dogma in their most rigid forms may be irrelevant, but the internal disciplines of faith or trust are not.
Fairly stringent critique on the "genetic basis" for religion over on Language Log. There is no God gene. There's also a difference between religiosity and institutionalism, as opposed to the active practice of faith or trust in a divine being or motive-force-for-good. Institutionalism and dogma in their most rigid forms may be irrelevant, but the internal disciplines of faith or trust are not.