(April 19, 2013 at 4:37 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I want to understand why you think that just because science has currently recognized where mystical feelings have come from (in the brain), but not yet WHY the brain would cause such a thing to occur, that means to you that there needs to be some sort of external agent. Or perhaps not 'needs' but simply 'is'.
If you are talking to me the where of the feeling simply removes it from the supernatural. It is not even an idea. As to why it exists, there are lots of areas of the brain with their own whys.
If I were guessing, trying to get a research grant, I would propose scanning children to see if the region is more active. If so I would follow up comparing its activity with obedience to parents.
We all once lived in a land of giants from whom all rewards, punishments and daily sustenance derived and did all manner of incomprehensible things, who knew everything. In other words, we all once lived in a land of gods.
It might explain why not only gods but kings have a successful motif of being parents or super-parents. Being cherished of a god is what children get from parents.
I suggest this is a region is one that will had the intelligent designer had a decent plan would cease to function around age 15 or so when it is no longer useful.
Quote:There are many things science hasn't found yet. But 100 years ago, there were many more, and science eventually found answers for them. None of them involved divinity. I want to know, essentially, why you fill your gaps with god instead of understanding that eventually - perhaps after your death, but eventually - these questions will get answered.
That cannot be directed to me. But let me comment that believers are using god to explain things we did not even known we did not know a century ago.
