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Editorial
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Science and religion traditionally part company around the issue of evidence. Whilst it is unarguable that the brain encodes belief and is the organ of decision, these attributes are a far cry from concluding that religiosity is entirely hard-wired and no more than a neural construct lacking all mystery. Nor should we be distracted by the revelation that Albert Einstein's dictum ‘science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind’ was not what he thought at all. On May 15, 2008, Bloomsbury Book Auctions (London) realized a hammer price of £170 000 against an upper estimate of £8000 for the manuscript letter from 1954 to his friend the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which Einstein writes: ‘The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.’
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