This is Your Brain on God

Debate has long raged between atheists and the faithful about whether God is all in our heads, and the discovery of a so-called “God module” in the brain has only fanned the flames.

While a group of neuroscientists at the University of San Diego were studying the brain patterns of epileptics, they stumbled across something they weren’t expecting: that epileptics who suffer a certain kind of seizure are often intensely religious, reporting an unusual number of visions, communications with God and even paranormal experiences.