NY Times on the origin of God

There was a long but very interesting article in yesterday's New York Times Magazine, "Darwin's God." Does the architecture of the human mind have a predisposition for believing in the supernatural in general and a God in particular? And if it does, is it a byproduct of some other evolutionary adaptation, or did the development of this trait itself provide a survival advantage?

Furthermore, does having an innate tendency to believe in the existence of God have any bearing on whether or not there is, in fact, a God?

“Christian theology teaches that people were crafted by God to be in a loving relationship with him and other people,” [psychologist Justin] Barrett wrote in his e-mail message. “Why wouldn’t God, then, design us in such a way as to find belief in divinity quite natural?” Having a scientific explanation for mental phenomena does not mean we should stop believing in them, he wrote. “Suppose science produces a convincing account for why I think my wife loves me — should I then stop believing that she does?”