Some researchers claim humans may be “hard-wired” to believe in God. NPR’s religion reporter discusses her search to uncover whether science can explain belief in a higher power.

May 19, 2009 | NPR
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"It all depends on how you define 'God,’” Hagerty says. “If you see God in the breathtaking complexity of our brains, as the architect of our bodies and our minds who planted the question Is there more? — well, science has room for that kind of God.”

December 17, 2009 | NPR’s Talk of the Nation

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