Posted on 07/21/2011 7:37:56 PM PDT by Coleus
I haven’t read the study yet, but look forward to it. The article about the study says that the hippocampus is bigger in “non-born again” protestants. Who says a bigger hippocampus is better?
If I’m not mistaken, brain size has little to do with actual intelligence anyway. It is a secondary factor. The fact is that most people don’t use the vast majority of their brain, so a person with a smaller brain, but who is more active intellectually, will be smarter than someone with a larger brain who refuses to think.
I would think that someone who calls themselves born again would have less stress in their life. They believe that they’re going to heaven and that God is in control. Maybe it’s the worry and uncertainty that someone who is not born again has that makes their brains “bigger” or bloated.
Amen to that.
Whoever wrote the title to the article has a tiny brain.
Lol...less worry and less worldly things to think about.
That's right! My wife says my hippocampus is just fine, and I shouldn't be embarrassed about it.
We don't need the extra capacity for being our own Gods and creating laws for others to follow, for rationalizing our moral relativism, immoral behavior and choices, or for coordinating hypocritical moral standards that we don't require of ourselves, but but condemn others for violating. Doing moral somersaults requires great concentration and coordination . . . hard work for a mortal brain.
It's hard work being your own God. We Christians only have to love our God and follow the wise law and precepts that he set before us. . . and libtards think that WE are stupid . . . how amusing!
WhatisthisshitIdon’teven...
Unbelievers have bigger brains because their cranial wiring is all mixed up. A big jumbled mess of goo on the shoulders. Believers are more nice and tidy with efficient compact wiring that makes sense. I made all that up BTW...
can I also be a scientific researcher publicist?
“Stupid FAT-heads!”
At first I thought you’d hit on it: Non born agains are more fat headed so their brains are larger.
Then I realized I’ve met some fat-headed folks who claim to be born again, so I guess not.
You don’t need big harddrive when you are running off of the main server....
Some attitudes in the modern evangelical church leads to stress, however. The disease of chronic pessimism has gripped many in the church. Tons of people are ready to just give up on renewing America, and refuse to apply the belief that God can turn the ship around whenever He pleases.
Deceptive article.
ONLY ONE part of the brain is slightly smaller, a part that deals with memory (and highly disputed and debated...) possibly behavioral inhibitions.
the article is poorly titled. It said that Born agains and non religous had smaller hippocampus’ than non born again protestants.
Not smaller brains, instead, a portion that is not as large as another, which also begs the question of what portions may be larger?
That is just plain stupid.
It’s not atrophy, it’s contraction into a critical mass.
The question should be, are Christians smarter than these scientists. Yes.
I am always amused at the assumption that there is a negative correlary between education (or intelligence) and faith. I have several degrees and more than one graduate degree and I’m a born again Christian.
Well whadaya know! Catholics and Protestants do have something in common: we have small brains, lol. What a joke!
Tis a puzzlement...born again and atheists both have brain atrophy. Wonder why the title didn't read "Study shows agnostics and atheists to have smaller brains."
No bias in this article...no siree!
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