Where Faith Comes From in the "moderate" Christian religions

This doesn't make the beliefs true, nor is it evidence that they are true. Personal experience is not valid evidence of the supernatural, as it could merely be internally generated.If, as you say, this tendency is innate, the fact that religion is widespread is not evidence for the truth of religion either.Some other kind of evidence needs to be presented to be convincing to non-believers.

I have read that religious experiences can be stimulated electrically, so your observation that they seem to be built in seems to be correct.I have not had one of these experiences, but I gather that they can be very convincing. I wonder if faith arises in part from some sort of flaw in the wiring of our brains.(apologies for earlier derail)

Sure it contradicts it. So much the worse for the bible.If many years of careful investigation by a great many scientists shows something, and some old book written thousands of years ago by ignorant savages shows something else, is it sensible to go with the old book?