Christians, If they could prove that when you think about God, the fantasy part of the brain becomes active?

Question

Would you still believe that God exist even if they prove that it's just your imagination?

Answer 1

Sorry, but you can't prove that.

Answer 2

Ok, I'll play.

Wow, you're making ALOT of far out assumptions here.

1) Assume they've mapped and know exactly where the 'fantasy' part of a person's brain is.
-- That every fantasy occurs in this area and that no other brain activity occurs in this area.
-- Example: F-16's are made of Jell-O

2) Assume that there is a seperate and equally distinguishable 'belief' part of the brain.
-- That every belief occurs in this area and that no other brain activity occurs in this area.
-- Example: That chair will hold me up if I sit in it.

3) Assume that there is a 'knowledge' part of the brain...
-- I think, therefore I am.

Now, even IF all these were true (so far they're only assumptions), you're still faced with the dilemma that science cannot be greater than God. God CREATED every natural law that you're using to try to prove He doesn't exist!

What you've done is claimed that 1) science is greater than God, and 2) that our brains are capable of flawlessly determining God's existence.

Have you seen our brains? They're the pinnacle of animal development, they have capacity beyond anything we've ever invented, and yet they're still mush.

There is a dichotomy of the number of subject matters we can understand and the level of understanding we can attain in them.

Maybe you've heard the phrase, "Jack of all trades, master of none."

The geniuses of our species are brilliant only in very specific fields. The very rare brain can master two or three areas.

How many master physicists are also master linguists, musicians, or geneticists?

As powerful as our brains are, they are also very limited in their power. Even the greatest physicists have not reached the final understanding of physics! Every single one of them will tell you that with every new discovery only comes more and more questions.

To claim that the 'fantasy' part of the brain twinkles when we think about God is relying far too heavily on such a weak instrument as compared to the vastness an inconceivabilty of the universe, much less than God.

Nice try, though.

Answer 3

Well you see, there is no actual "fantasy" part of the brain. That's just a term that's used to describe a section of the brain. What I would think was that when people open their minds to considering things that exist outside of the universe that they can perceive through the 5 senses then that part of the brain becomes active.

Answer 4

Hypothetically speaking, if it could be proven that God exists (or doesn't exist), there would be no more faith needed.

If God exists, and it is proven, then their faith becomes belief in reality.

If God does not exists, and it is proven, then their becomes pure imagination.

If such a thing could be proven for sure, without any margin of error, then I don't think I would believe in God, because to do so would be plain stupid... like believing that the world is flat.

However, God does not fall completely within the scope of science, the field of study which requires proof for existence... or any other field of study for that matter. Hence there is no way to really prove that God exists or not.

Answer 5

I would still believe....there is more proof in my life that God exists. I don't need someone telling me that some test has now "proved" it's all in my imagination....where else could faith reside anyway? The imagination section (if that indeed does exist) of the brain is the best part ....reality is highly overrated most of the time.

Answer 6

that couldn't be proved becasue in order for that part of the brain to become active they would have to be a nonbeliever becasue that would be why the "fantasy part" would be active. Where the heck is this question coming from anyway? That can't be proved and I know God isn't just my imagination.

Answer 7

Imagine that you can prove that you are imagining the proof of imagination.
One movie related that, if you truly believe that the law of gravity doesn't exist, then it doesn't. Scientology thinking.
You can believe all you want that gravity doesn't exist will change nothing. It's still there.
See, I have felt God's presence. I KNOW it was Him. You can't prove to me that was a figment of my imagination. Just because you haven't found proof mean something or someone doesn't exist.
The other issue is if you spend all your time trying to disprove something, you bring bias into the equation, since you refuse to look for clues toward His existence.

Answer 8

Here is a very good article from Newsweek. I'll let you decide what Scientists have found out 5 years ago.

http://www.flockofangels.org/godandthebrain.htm

for a brief synopsis:

"For all the tentative successes that scientists are scoring in their search for the biological bases of religious, spiritual and mystical experience, one mystery will surely lie forever beyond their grasp. They may trace a sense of transcendence to this bulge in our gray matter. And they may trace a feeling of the divine to that one. But it is likely that they will never resolve the greatest question of all--namely, whether our brain wiring creates God, or whether God created our brain wiring. Which you believe is, in the end, a matter of faith. "

Peace and Love

Answer 9

Of course.

I bet that sometimes when I think about my girlfriend the fantasy part of my brain becomes active, but does that make her any less real?

Answer 10

The "fantasy part" of the brain?

Hehe, if you're going to pick a fight with the Christians, at least use the proper anatomical terms, and stop making the rest of us look ignorant.

;)

Answer 11

first, "they" would have to prove there IS a fantasy part of the brain...who are "they" anyway? the same people who are part of that "everybody knows" gang?