Primates lie. The higher primates lie more.
Such brains might also be good for playing games of strategy such as chess. It would be very interesting if research found that liars played chess better than honest people.
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Couple thoughts that aren't addressed in the article. Do other people who aren't liars have the same extra white matter? And, if liars have this different kind of brain, it seems to this simpleton that the brain could have developed in that manner because of their habit of lying. Just like muscles develop if you use them, and atrophy if you don't.
And even if some people are born with "lying brains" - it just means they need to struggle harder to overcome that temptation, just as everyone needs to struggle with perhaps different temptations. We aren't the brain - it's just like a computer we're using for a while. It looks as though this kind of information, if accurate, could be used by those promoting "born that way and can't help it"-driven agendas.
Some ethnic groups, for instance Native Americans, are more prone to alcoholism due to something I can't remember - some physiological inability to metabolize alcohol, maybe someone else knows. But that doesn't exonerate them. No one forces someone to take that first, second, or thrid drink. We all have our own individual set of weaknesses, and the responsibility to overcome them.
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Final note: One of these days, we will each have to account for everything we've done. No excuses allowed - whether it's "the Devil made me do it" or "my brain made me do it". Nope. But the good part is that no matter how strong any tendency is, and how we weak we may be, God is stronger than every temptation, every evil, and can and will help us to the degree we beg Him to. It is said that a surrendered soul depends not even slightly on his own strength, but entirely on the strength of God.
If anyone has been around her for awhile they realize she does it and just learn to ignore her.
I used to date a girl who was basically honest but when she did lie, was so good at it that even knowing for certain she was lying, I found myself believing her.
I don't know which is worse.
Body and soul comprise an organic unity. When the the soul is deformed by the will with lies, it stands to reason that the body would be affected. The scientists have cause and effect reversed. It's impossible for simple matter to make a choice for evil, which is what a lie is.
John 8:44 (KJV)
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”