Atheism/Theism and Left/Right Brain?
October 3, 2015 at 1:59 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2015 at 2:13 am by bambi_swag.)
This is just something interesting I've noticed and think maybe a correlation:
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The argument:
"People who are Atheist tend to be male and left-brained while Theists tend to be more female and right-brained. Maybe Atheism and theism is something deeply genetic."
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Why I think so:
We all know that the Left-Brain is associated with Logic, Reason, and Concrete/tactile data. While the Right brain is associated with feelings, creativity and intuition/abstract data.
First reason why I think this is so is because of the boiled down arguments atheists and theists make. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the theist arguement boils down to a sort of "I can *feel* God's Existence", while the atheist arguement boils down to "I can't see, touch, or find any hard *evidence* of God". Don't you see the left-brain, right-brain arguement structure here?
Likewise, if you guys keep up with politics don't you notice that very secular people are more liberal and "*left*-wing" while religious people tend to be more conservative and "*right*-wing"? If you think about it, communism is a *logical* theoretical structure while a theocracy is *feeling* based, hope based structure.
Another reason why I believe this to be true is because of the divide in the Scientific field.
According to the Pew Research Center Poll and surveyed Scientist's belief/disbelief, ( http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scien...nd-belief/ )it turns out that roughly 50% are either God/higher power believers, while the other half were atheists/agnostic.
And this is where things get interesting. If you study the stats (the ones at the bottom of the field) carefully and make a general selection of competing ideas, it seems as if the *Male Scientists* who study Physics/Astronomy are inclined to be more atheistic while the *Female Scientists* who study Geosciences tend to be more theistic. Think about it. Doesn't the Earth *Feel* as if it was created by God? While doesn't the Universe's light-year distances *logically suggest* an older, naturalistic non-Theistic Origin?
To conclude, I have a intuitive *feeling* that the reason why atheists and theists simply can't get along is simply because our brains are wired differently and thus we think each other are stupid.
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Another conclusion I make is that this correlation maybe altogether just a giant bullshit hypothesis with a small grain of truth. Sorry for wasting your time if it is.
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EDIT: If what I'm saying is possible, I'd like to do an experiment in which one of you virgin atheists men to marry a religious woman and how your new experimental child's worldview would be like.
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The argument:
"People who are Atheist tend to be male and left-brained while Theists tend to be more female and right-brained. Maybe Atheism and theism is something deeply genetic."
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-----------------------------------
Why I think so:
We all know that the Left-Brain is associated with Logic, Reason, and Concrete/tactile data. While the Right brain is associated with feelings, creativity and intuition/abstract data.
First reason why I think this is so is because of the boiled down arguments atheists and theists make. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the theist arguement boils down to a sort of "I can *feel* God's Existence", while the atheist arguement boils down to "I can't see, touch, or find any hard *evidence* of God". Don't you see the left-brain, right-brain arguement structure here?
Likewise, if you guys keep up with politics don't you notice that very secular people are more liberal and "*left*-wing" while religious people tend to be more conservative and "*right*-wing"? If you think about it, communism is a *logical* theoretical structure while a theocracy is *feeling* based, hope based structure.
Another reason why I believe this to be true is because of the divide in the Scientific field.
According to the Pew Research Center Poll and surveyed Scientist's belief/disbelief, ( http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scien...nd-belief/ )it turns out that roughly 50% are either God/higher power believers, while the other half were atheists/agnostic.
And this is where things get interesting. If you study the stats (the ones at the bottom of the field) carefully and make a general selection of competing ideas, it seems as if the *Male Scientists* who study Physics/Astronomy are inclined to be more atheistic while the *Female Scientists* who study Geosciences tend to be more theistic. Think about it. Doesn't the Earth *Feel* as if it was created by God? While doesn't the Universe's light-year distances *logically suggest* an older, naturalistic non-Theistic Origin?
To conclude, I have a intuitive *feeling* that the reason why atheists and theists simply can't get along is simply because our brains are wired differently and thus we think each other are stupid.
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Another conclusion I make is that this correlation maybe altogether just a giant bullshit hypothesis with a small grain of truth. Sorry for wasting your time if it is.
[emoji51]
EDIT: If what I'm saying is possible, I'd like to do an experiment in which one of you virgin atheists men to marry a religious woman and how your new experimental child's worldview would be like.
