Anything we learn first as a child can be a "deep belief" whether that is religious, scientific, historical, moral, mathematical or just how to dress properly on Sunday.
But to call everything held in a certain brain region as "religion" simply denies logical distinctions -- or indeed the value of logic itself.
So I don't buy it.
reasonisfaith: "Every reply to me on this has been a highly emotional personal attack.
This is evidence in itself."
I can't confirm that except to note the posts I've seen on this thread seem pretty mild in tone compared to many on other threads, some directed at me.
I'd also say that vociferous complaint about "personal attacks", real or imagined, is not really "guy thing".
reasonisfaith: "Some studies in neurobiology have shown this part to be the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
Others have implicated localized segments of the brain including the posterior parietal-occipital region."
So you claim there is some brain center for "deeply held beliefs", religious or otherwise, which makes all thoughts held there "religious" and yet nobody really knows where this center is?
Hmmmmmm…
All I meant was if you have a brain, you have religion.