Articles seem to abound nowadays about the 'God Spot' in the human brain. Most of these seem to be written with the assumption that this 'God spot' somehow proves that feeling the presence of God is an illusion. This standard take on the subject has become so prevalent that people will refer casually to the God spot as 'evidence' that any sense of God is merely a malfunction of the brain. Yet it would seem that one need not be a neurologist nor even a biologist to notice some obvious logical problems with the standard 'myth' of the 'God spot'.

Firstly, most moderate, modern Christians, perfectly happy with the theory of Evolution and science in general, would probably be surprised if the brain did not show some particular, even unusual, activity during particularly efficacious prayer. This is surely to be expected. Human beings are physical as well as spiritual beings. So the brain activity can be seen to be the effect, with God as the cause. Of course, as the scientists (and believers) would be quick to point out, God cannot be measured. So scientifically, the activity of the 'God spot' may seem itself to be the cause, with the religious experience as the effect. The point is, what else would one expect? God exists outside time. This means outside the universe, before the big bang, in all the places where science cannot tread. Science cannot expect to measure God's spiritual presence.

Which leads on to the second point. With the exception of the very occasional, world-changing event, God seems to work mainly through human agency. God told Noah to build his ark to survive what may have been the melting of the icecaps. There is a well-known joke about the man on the roof in a flood. Three boats and a helicopter try and save him, but he tells each, 'no, God will save me'. When he drowns, he asks God why he didn't save him. God says, 'I sent three boats and a helicopter, what more do you want?' If science takes a secular, non-spiritual person as 'normal', then a spiritual person with a more active 'God spot' will automatically become 'abnormal'. But can we really be sure that the second is not actually functioning as God intended?