How your brain creates God? (Evos try to reduce God to natural by-product of how brain works)

CMI ^ | March 10, 2009 | Adrian Bates

[GodGunsGuts]

[syriacus]

My brain helps me hear birds singing.

Are the birds phantoms of my imagination?

[exit82]

Romans Chapter 1.

[GodGunsGuts]

Excellent point! Believe it or not, some would argue “yes.”

[swain_forkbeard]

“Are the birds phantoms of my imagination?”

That’s not something I can know.

[metmom]

ABG-Anything But God.

Reducing it to genetics takes away free will, accountability, responsibility, even the truth of it all. God then becomes a man-made construct.

For all the evos/atheists dogmatic insistence that that religion has no place in science, they sure don’t seem to mind making sure that science has a place in religion and trying to reduce religion to some kind of scientifically determined consequence of the natural world.

If philosophy is not part of science, then why to they keep trying to rein philosophy in under the purview of science and reduce it to a mere mechanistic function?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[ripley]

“How Your Brain Creates God”

Should read: “How Your Brain Creates, Lives and Furthers the Socialist Revolution”

[mdk1960]

Didn’t Jesus say God is Life Itself? The animating principle of the universe...

[Jeff Gordon]

My cat believes in God. She thinks that God is She. I think she has a good point.

[Professor_Leonide]

Leftwing brains created “global warming” so it’s something to think about.

[woollyone]

which should be a mutated weakness, as it detracts form the SOTF notions.

Makes one wonder how/why such a mutation wasn't bred out through the (insert Carl Sagan voice) biiilllions and biiilllions of years

[muawiyah]

Good analogy. Another approach might be that God needs a com-link in your brain, and there it is ~ no surprise at all.

Then there the "other people" who have no com-link. Are they MORE or LESS evolved?

[Sam's Army]

Wow, dude. That’s like deep and stuff (Hey don’t Bogart, man—pass it over).

[Liberty1970]

There is an absolute pandemic of lousy cause-effect reasoning in science articles of the last generation. That is, there is an endless flow of articles that properly and scientifically observe a correlation between A and B, and then, without any evidence presume that "therefore" A causes B. When it could just as easily be B that causes A, or another factor, C, that is causing both A and B.

In this context, the fact that certain parts of our brain are involved in certain mental processes associated with 'religious' topics proves basically nothing. The Romans 1 reference is an apt one in any case. (Interesting, a few years ago some atheists at a summer camp for atheistic indoctrination claimed directly the opposite, contrary to this and other scientific evidence, such as a Japanese study that found that children in that non-monotheistic nation instinctively cited God as a creator when questioned on the subject.)

[Trod Upon]

If true, then why do so many struggle with faith? And why are there atheists? I guess this means atheists really are evolutionary throw-backs.

[muawiyah]

Hmm ~ "mechanistic" does not actually equal "genetic". All your genes do is produce proteins, or other substances, on order ~ from where?

Just where is the master controller, or series of controllers, or super computers, who order up the proteins ~ at some point the process becomes so complex it defies analysis ~ and certainly passes way beyond anything that could be thought to be merely "mechanistic".

[tflabo]

Dawkins, a strong supporter in his book God Delusion of the theory that religion is propagated in children by indoctrination, was asked in the article: “If children have an innate belief in god, however, where does that leave the indoctrination hypothesis?

Instead we have the atheist evolutionists indoctrination instead of our children in schools.

[EyeGuy]

“My cat believes in God. She thinks that God is She. I think she has a good point.”

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In that she is an unqualified miracle, in a world absolutely flush with miracles, she is correct.