(March 22, 2010 at 8:35 am)RedFish Wrote: Just as a further to what I said earlier. I'm not advocating drug use, was a long time ago and we were all styoopid. er. But how would you atheists feel if somebody were to offer you a substance that would enable you to 'see God'? What if this 'experience' were repeatable and universal? Would you give it creedence? Returning from the 'wilderness' carrying ecstatic visions..., or just poisoning/ indigestion?
You would not be experiencing god, just the effects of a drug, in much the same way as my mate was not really being chased by smurfs.
It seems there is an areaof the brain that when stimulated simulates the experince people feel when they 'experience god' (darwinian had a thread on it a while ago) so maybe the drug would be stimulating that area.
It would prove exactly zip, one way or the other on the existance of a god.
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