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Essentially, Alpine says that this God part of the brain was a necessary evolutionary adaptation for mankind when we realized our very possible non-existence. Without this adaptation, mankind would be very weak indeed. Imagine the world with no religion. Chaos would ensue.

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I am very skeptical of this claim and would like to hear his reasoning. I do not think God is a necessary explanation, but only a possible one, which just happens to be very prominent in the history of thought. I don't see how it exists as a function of the brain as Alpine appears to claim. To me it is more of a development of thought. I don't claim to know much about the scientific matters surrounding this issue, though.