(October 10, 2013 at 7:26 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: We can observe that people do enter into a physically observable spiritual state but of course we can't prove God is the source of the cause. Because we can't observe God.
Those images show that different areas of the brain are more active when performing different actions. This isn't anything surprising and it's certainly not indicative of a "spiritual state." Researchers continue to study the brain and as far as I am aware have mapped out regions of activity and regions that perform different tasks. It stands to reason that brain activity would change depending on what we're doing and thinking.
How is any of that indicative of a "spiritual state"?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
