its for my essay :S
2006-09-12 08:09:41 · 23 answers · asked by tony s 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. It is highly possible to generate religious experiences in the laboratory with high density magnetic fields operating on the temporal lobe.
People who experience temporal lobe seizures often report the feeling of contact with the divine during such seizures.
The chemical DMT is highly associated with religious experiences, to the point it's been refered to by researchers as "The God Molecule"
So the answer is no. HOWEVER, the scientific explainability of the experience IN NO WAY INVALIDATES the impact it will have on the people. Take this into consideration. I myself am a strong atheist and have had deeply and intensely spiritual experiences that regardless of understanding their origins have changed me in ways beyond words.
2006-09-12 08:15:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 'biblical circumstances' maximum persons did not study. memories have been handed on by way of oral custom. while something of historic magnitude befell, somebody who unquestionably knew a thank you to write, ought to write down a sparkling tale and pretend it became an previous prediction. one hundred years might have been considered an unimaginably long term. (maximum persons did not understand math). So somebody ought to invent a narrative, positioned the scroll away someplace, and a few else takes out the scroll one hundred years later. "Oh look, I unquestionably have got here across the classic prophecy!" All gods are myths invented by ability of folk. human beings claimed to be prophets, with the intention to make greater earnings!
2016-10-14 22:28:02 · answer #2 · answered by swindler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't prove god exists, the thought of God or any higher diety is all faith. To say anything religious is to state your believes, and honestly, to say a religious experience is a proof that God exists, is true to some extent. It doens't prove the Catholic belief of God and Jesus any more than it does of a pagan worshippers gods and goddesses. But i believe it proves that there is something out there trying to tell us keep believing in whatever we believe and try to live good lives.
2006-09-12 08:15:25 · answer #3 · answered by Giz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's proof of your brain playing tricks on you. Everything you see, hear, touch, smell, taste and think about are pre-processed by your brain before you're conscious of them. It totally controls what you experience. That's why dreams can be so real.
It's also why people see stuff like ghosts. When you're scared, your brain is looking for faces and listening for voices, in case something wants to jump out at you. Unfortunately, it also sees some when they aren't there.
There is plenty of evidence of people seeing things that aren't there. A religious experience is just another example of one.
2006-09-12 08:11:48 · answer #4 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it's proof of the good job religions have done in convincing people of god's existence, it does not prove god's existence.
2006-09-12 08:50:50 · answer #5 · answered by Ale 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no - in the same way that people claiming to have experienced alian anal probes - does not prove alien existance. All it proves is that they think they have been probed by aliens.
Also consider - that it will never be possible for us to differentiate god - form beings of superior intelligence pretending to be god.
most of what jesus did in the bible could have been done by the crew of the starship enterprise
2006-09-12 08:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by aurora03uk 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are assuming that I and anybody else seeing this post, know what your religious experience was. I don`t have a clue any more than anybody else does. and as for proof of a deity, no.
What sort of proof would you need?.
2006-09-12 08:35:43 · answer #7 · answered by Spanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless you can 1) connect the expereince to something outside of the nervous system, and2)show thattheiris nothing else that could explain thatparticular expereince except god.
2006-09-12 08:13:58 · answer #8 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had a broke wrist what the xrays showed was broken and the doctor said it would take 2 weeks to heal. it didnt hurt that mutch but i got prayed for that knight at church because i whanted to see if god would do something about it. next moarning it didnt hurt at all and i took of my cast and i was fine, i whent to the doctors,got an x-ray and it showed that it had compleatly heald
2006-09-15 21:35:47 · answer #9 · answered by VILLAIN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not any more than feeling "full" after eating a whole loaf of bread is proof of balanced nourishment, no!
2006-09-12 08:13:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋