Atheism/Theism and Left/Right Brain?

[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.
[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.

[houseofcantor]

Manufactured bs - 

[bambi_swag]

Manufactured bs - 

Well I guess I wasted five minutes of my life writing all that. But what I still don't understand is the video trying to prove? At the end, what is the use of each of hemisphere?

[houseofcantor]

Well I guess I wasted five minutes of my life writing all that. But what I still don't understand is the video trying to prove? At the end, what is the use of each of hemisphere?

Nothing is wasted when something is learned. The video emphasizes that it is far more complicated than a simple left/right dichotomy.

[robvalue]

Regardless of demographics, I'd certainly say that logically thinking people are more likely to be atheist than those that value emotional reasoning. Religious arguments are illogical and rely heavily on emotional manipulation.

[Homeless Nutter]

[...] 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.

Well, let me save you the trouble - in almost all cases I've ever come across - including my family - whenever an atheist and a theist have a child, the child grows up to be an atheist, or agnostic. 

Religion needs to be consequently forced upon you and if one of the parents allows for dissent - any half-intelligent teenager will chose sleeping in on Sunday and guilt-free masturbation, over going to church and being f***ed by a priest...

[bambi_swag]

Regardless of demographics, I'd certainly say that logically thinking people are more likely to be atheist than those that value emotional reasoning. Religious arguments are illogical and rely heavily on emotional manipulation.

True.

[BrokenQuill92]

Are you trying to say that women are irrational?

[houseofcantor]

Time to go... 

[Athene]

I don't take much stock in this theory, because the claim of vast dominance in the brains of most people seems to be
exaggerated. Humans utilize both hemispheres of their brains; different parts at different times for different tasks. A particular affinity, interest or skill that relies on one portion at particular moments in time, doesn't mean that one 
hemisphere has overarching dominance.

Besides...it doesn't require Vulcan logic to know that magic ain't real.