There is no "God Spot" in the human brain.

Mix_lazy/overworked/undereducated science reporters with the sensationalism that keeps profit-driven publications alive and you're bound to get ridiculous reports on solve-all "science" that has "solved" humanity's greatest mysteries with a few well-designed double-blinds.

Recently, it's been reports that neuroscientists have found a spot in the human brain responsible for religious intensity. A God Spot, of course.

I declare, "bull," and so does the blogger at Reuters' "Faith World."

"There is no one place in the brain responsible for religion, just as there is no single location in the brain for love or language or identity. Most popular articles these days actually say that, but the headline writers continue to speak of a single spot.

“There isn’t a separate religious area of the brain, from what we can tell from the data,” said Dr. Andrew Newberg, an associate professor of radiology and psychiatry at the Penn university hospital and author of several books on neuroscience and religion. “It’s not like there’s a little spiritual spot that lights up every time somebody thinks of God."

The blogger is finding out about this at Penn's "Neuroscience Bootcamp," a conference designed to explain neuroscience to people outside of the field- an effort that people in the media, ethicists, religious thinkers, and policy makers could/are benefit/ting from enormously. Science needs to remember how many important people would believe its case if it just spoke up in a more broadly thrown voice. This conference is awesome. Maybe I will go next year.