I didn’t think it pos­si­ble, but this arti­cle on the work of anthro­pol­o­gist James Dow actu­ally makes Richard Dawkins’s take on reli­gion sound subtle:

God may work in mys­te­ri­ous ways, but a simple com­puter pro­gram may explain how reli­gion evolved.

By dis­till­ing reli­gious belief into a genetic pre­dis­po­si­tion to pass along unver­i­fi­able infor­ma­tion, the pro­gram pre­dicts that reli­gion will flour­ish. How­ever, reli­gion only takes hold if non-​believers help believ­ers out–per­haps because they are impressed by their devotion.