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Why would you want to believe in god?

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Why would you want to believe in god?
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RE: Why would you want to believe in god?
July 1, 2015 at 4:07 pm (This post was last modified: July 1, 2015 at 4:08 pm by Whateverist.)
Quote:It may seem sacrilegious and presumptuous to reduce God to a few ornery synapses, but modern neuroscience isn't shy about defining our most sacred notions - love, joy, altruism, pity - as nothing more than static from our impressively large cerebrums. Persinger goes one step further. His work practically constitutes a Grand Unified Theory of the Otherworldly: He believes cerebral fritzing is responsible for almost anything one might describe as paranormal - aliens, heavenly apparitions, past-life sensations, near-death experiences, awareness of the soul, you name it.

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Why would you want to believe in god?

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Why would you want to believe in god? - by Spooky - June 29, 2015 at 4:59 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Longhorn - June 29, 2015 at 5:06 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Spooky - June 29, 2015 at 5:09 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Longhorn - June 29, 2015 at 5:26 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Metis - June 29, 2015 at 5:12 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by brewer - June 29, 2015 at 5:47 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Nope - July 1, 2015 at 8:13 am
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Pyrrho - July 1, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Tonus - July 1, 2015 at 3:13 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Whateverist - July 1, 2015 at 4:07 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Pizza - July 1, 2015 at 4:22 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by comet - July 2, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Why would you want to believe in god? - by KUSA - July 2, 2015 at 10:50 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by bennyboy - July 2, 2015 at 11:02 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Spooky - July 3, 2015 at 4:38 pm

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