Posted on 03/10/2009 10:32:03 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
The journal New Scientist has recently run an article called Born Believers: How your brain creates God (especially in hard financial times)1… Towards the latter end of the article is a disclaimer that ‘All the researchers involved stress that none of this says anything about the existence or otherwise of gods.’ However, the tenor of the article, including the title, militates strongly that the author’s preferred reality is that, yes folks, “your brain creates God.”
The article initially suggests that “God” is created in our brains as a result of “an evolutionary adaptation that makes people more likely to survive”. However it then points out that this theory is not accepted by many in the evolutionary community. Blithely over-riding this hiccup, it then launches into an alternate, conflicting theory that “religion emerges as a natural by-product of the way the human mind works”...
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
Are the birds phantoms of my imagination?
Romans Chapter 1.
Excellent point! Believe it or not, some would argue “yes.”
“Are the birds phantoms of my imagination?”
That’s not something I can know.
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?
Thanks for the ping!
“How Your Brain Creates God”
Should read: “How Your Brain Creates, Lives and Furthers the Socialist Revolution”
Didn’t Jesus say God is Life Itself? The animating principle of the universe...
My cat believes in God. She thinks that God is She. I think she has a good point.
Leftwing brains created “global warming” so it’s something to think about.
Makes one wonder how/why such a mutation wasn't bred out through the (insert Carl Sagan voice) biiilllions and biiilllions of years
Then there the "other people" who have no com-link. Are they MORE or LESS evolved?
Wow, dude. That’s like deep and stuff (Hey don’t Bogart, man—pass it over).
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.)
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.
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".
Instead we have the atheist evolutionists indoctrination instead of our children in schools.
“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.
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