This debate goes back and forth. I don’t expect this to settle the question, but it’s another step. 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130151606.htm//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

A refreshing change from the arguments about free will.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ed_yong_suicidal_wasps_zombie_roaches_and_other_tales_of_parasites//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

“[R]research subjects with a particular variation of a certain gene were more susceptible to self-transcendent, spiritual experiences.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/what-happens-to-brains-during-spiritual-experiences/361882///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Now here’s a great reason to work on that attitude problem.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/health/cynical-dementia/index.html?hpt=hp_t2//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

“[R]adiocarbon dating at the University of Edinburgh found it dated to 28 years either side of 1063 and was therefore likely to have been involved in fighting at the time of the Norman invasion and the Battle of Hastings.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-27446020//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js