A major study at universities this week concludes that the brain is hard-wired into believing in God. It is ingrained in us. We tend to follow a belief in the supernatural if we can.

But who or what put this urge into our brain? Was it God or nature? But if nature, is it in the interests of the survival of the fittest to encourage faith in anything other than the real and the immediate?

If you are walking down a jungle path and dreaming about God in the dawn of time instead of thinking what might be behind the next bush aren’t you more likely to be eaten by a lion?

So perhaps God did put the thought there.