Humans 'hardwired for religion'

While the headline says hardwired for religion, the text says 'irrational beliefs' to which I take exception, and the arguments are well rehearsed. I think that this may mean that we are witnessing the spectacle of a bunch of atheists, who think that evolution disproves God, begining to acknowledge that evolution seems to have predisposed us to believe in God. Since evolution is about fitness, presumably this indicates that the God meme renders us fitter to survive and may even be a pointer to real reality? It's a bit of a bind to be in, since acting as if we believe is not really an option. One has to actually believe.
Bruce Hood told the annual British Association Festival of Science in Norwich that

the standard bearers for evolution, such as the biologist Richard Dawkins and the philosopher Daniel Dennet, had adopted a counterproductive and "simplistic" position.
"They have basically said there are two types of people in the world," he said - "those who believe in the supernatural and those who do not. But almost everyone entertains some form of irrational beliefs even if they are not religious.

Of course, the question is whether the failure to believe is a sign of rationality or otherwise, if you take away the emotive labelling we are left with an assertion about emotive content associated with the working hypotheses we all make to help us negotiate our world. But beware, emotion and rationality are not opposing forces. Without emotion we cannot be rational, and many of our emotions rest on our 'rational' [better 'attemptedly rational'] assessments of what is going on. Ever notice how Mr Spock and Data in Star Trek kept failing to be entirely rational and emotionless? That's because it is a myth that they can really be separated. The issue is what counts as 'irrational'. Whose rationality? Which premisses are adopted? Is it simply a matter of what is or is not subjected to philosophically rigorous scrutiny? Is Bruce Hood codedly chastising the Dawkins tendency [rightly, it would be] for their irrational animus against idealogies they find themselves unsympathetic to?
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