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Neuro science and God

7/21/2014

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Some people state that there is no conflict between science and religion. Yes there is. The latest research in neuro-science through neuro-imagining by Dimitrios Kapogiannis, National Institutes of Health USA, Neuroradiology, shows a definite neural foundation of religious beliefs in the brain www.pnas.org/content/106/12/4876.short

Social cognition is the “encoding, storage, retrieval and processing of information in the Brain. The experiments regarding the beliefs systems indicate that religion is a product of the brain that evolved to help humans cope with the little understood environment. Fear of the unknown was a powerful survival instinct.  We also have an innate sense of morality as found in studies  (Just Babies: the origin of good and evil by Paul Bloom) that babies who do are to young to have been indoctrinated by religion have a sense of right and wrong, an interesting read. That brings into question the assertion that we need religion to be moral. An interesting quote I ran into (I wish I could remember the source) was:

Morality is what is right in spite of what we are told.

Religious Morality is doing what we are told regardless whether it is right.

I leave you with one more “bon mot”: It takes religion to make good people do bad things! That sums up very well, doesn’t it?

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Steven Fielder
9/20/2014 10:59:20 am

I asked God for a motorbike but I know God doesn't work that way, so I stole one instead, and then asked God for forgiveness. Still haven't heard back.

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