Roger Trigg, acting Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science at the University of Oxford, is understandably very happy. The centre has  been recently awarded a grant for a three year programme to determine why mankind embraces God. The programme is expected to spend nearly two million pounds while involving anthropologists, theologians, philosophers and academics in associated studies

, research and debate. While one basic aim would seem to be to find out whether belief in a divine being is a part of mankind's makeup, Trigg is quoted by 'The Hindu' today as having admitted that 'there are a lot of issues'.

A conference in July announced elsewhere,

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~theo0038/Conferenceinfo/General.html

could be for starters.

I vaguely recall reading a blog on a related issue where the blogger insists we are 'hardwired' to believe. Fortunately, the blogger in question has control over the circuitry; otherwise , he would be believing too, like a number of us.

Wonder whether anything even vaguely non-Abrahamic will manage to sneak into the Oxford programme or the conference?