As I started to blog about my field of study some years ago (at first in German only), it started as a playful trial. But readers and commentators got surprisingly interested in the topics at hand, I was invited into the Scilogs-community and decided to open this English version, too. And I learned that it can be hard work to offer regular contributions as well as reactions to comments and discussions. As anybody would (especially anybody with a family with a wonderful wife and now three young kids, a captivating job and a lot of scientific and publishing schedules), I pondered now and then whether I should reduce my blogging activities. But today, I am a happy blogger.

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There are still many people around who claim an inevitable enmity between science and religions. But in the last years, scientists from different fields and backgrounds started to explore religiosity (here defined as behavior toward supernatural agents) from the perspective of evolutionary theory. We agree that questions of existence or nonexistence of supernatural agents as ancestors, spirits, bodhisattvas or God may be beyond the scope of empirical sciences, but that we may explore religious behavior, its workings and functions with the same scientific respect and curiosity as any other natural, biocultural trait (i.e. musicality or speaking). (More)

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