Biotheology

[Moontanman]

Thanks for the links turtle, it makes you wonder how much religion is the result of these injurys or disease induced visions.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

Thanks for the links turtle, it makes you wonder how much religion is the result of these injurys or disease induced visions.

No mystery to me; all of it has come from peoples' heads. More supporting links to follow as I find them, a task getting increasingly easier as more of these studies come out. Seek and you shall find, erhm.. I mean, look it up.

[Turtle]

That didn't take long to find something new.

To The Brain, God Is Just Another Guy : NPR

Originally Posted by Jon Hamilton

To The Brain, God Is Just Another Guy
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When a person encounters a statement about God's presence, Grafman believes, "That's making an inference about God as a being of some kind, so you're making an inference about an entity and their relationship with you. That would activate the same areas in the brain as if you were making an inference about a friend's intentions."
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Beliefs Produce Emotional Reaction
Grafman says there were some differences between religious and nonreligious people.
Those who said they believed in God had a negative emotional response to statements like, "There is no higher purpose." Nonbelievers had the same reaction to statements that assumed God exists. Grafman says the results show that, to the brain, religious belief is a lot like political belief.
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Grafman says the new study says nothing about whether God exists. But it does suggest that religious belief uses a brain system that evolved quite recently.