God in the Genes?

God and Evolution, an editorial by columnist Nicolas Kristof of the NY Times, explores a tentative biological component of faith. He recounts a few possible links between genetics, biology and faith, concluding, "Of course, none of that answers the question of whether God exists. The faithful can believe that God wired us to appreciate divinity. And atheists can argue that God may simply be a figment of our VMAT2 gene. . . . A propensity to faith in some form appears to be embedded within us as a profound part of human existence, as inextricable and perhaps inexplicable as the way we love and laugh."