RE: My Wife's Christian Co-worker
February 10, 2014 at 12:12 am
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2014 at 1:14 am by SteelCurtain.)
Selfish? Huh?
Whenever a fundie says "scientifically proven", I ask for the peer review. Although the scientific community has recently shat on that.
There are in fact studies that show specific parts of the brain lighting up in fMRI's when people are having "religious experiences," showing that these experiences share at least something in common. Not surprisingly, the interpretation of what this means is vastly different in the two camps...
Whenever a fundie says "scientifically proven", I ask for the peer review. Although the scientific community has recently shat on that.
There are in fact studies that show specific parts of the brain lighting up in fMRI's when people are having "religious experiences," showing that these experiences share at least something in common. Not surprisingly, the interpretation of what this means is vastly different in the two camps...
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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