Counterfactuality in counterintuitive religious concepts

In sketching a preliminary scientific theory of religion, Altran & Norenzayan (A&N) generally agree with cognitive scientists of religion in the factors that coalesce to form religion. At times they misrepresent, however, the notion of "counterintuitive" concepts as they apply to religious concepts, confusing counterintuitive with counterfactual, category mistakes, and logical contradiction.Citation: Barrett, J. L. (2004). 'Counterfactuality in counterintuitive religious concepts', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27(6), 731-732. [Available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BBS]. N.B. Dr Barrett is now based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford