[muawiyah]

This is the article carried in Yahoo. I’m always suspicious of a claim that a “belief system” can cause such fundamental differences in such things as the decay rate of “visual purple” ~
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20081115/981/tsc-religious-people-have-superior-visua.html

[caseinpoint]

Thanks. I’ll check it out sometime. I would be skeptical also. While there are reasons to believe that belief systems can affect perception (after all, some believe they see evidence of God everywhere and others don’t), I don’t believe that atheism is genetically based.