The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It produces our every thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world.[ quoted from NewScientist.com Nov. 20 , 2006.]
Indeed, ultimately, we we even taste with our brains.
" We learn to like foods when they're paired with something our brains are programmed to see as good," says Dr. Linda Bartoshuk of the University of Florida, a specialist in the genetics of human taste.
University of Michigan researchers just uncovered that eating something tasty can spark brain cells that sense actual pleasure.
Is all this a paradigm for how religiosity occurs? Thus, basic brain hard wiring, plus religious indoctrination repeatedly and associated pleasure experiences like Christmas time, church suppers & religious summer camp?
2006-11-21 06:11:39 · 22 answers · asked by dollparty.geo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. Atheists have choose to be against God. They choose to follow the antichrist. They get a sickness in their soul. It is a self induced cancer of their soul. It will eat the spirit and eventually kill them. They will suffer a miserable eternal death.
2006-11-21 06:15:34 · answer #1 · answered by Shayna 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Hmm. I wouldn't say hardwired differently, but I think you've struck on something that might make an interesting study someday.
I think it's more a difference in...well, not even thought process, but interpretation. Whether that's a difference at the genetic level or is more a nature vs. nurture thing would be interesting to find out.
2006-11-21 14:30:50 · answer #2 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Care must be taken here. For one thing, most of the atheists I know have been religious - or at least believers - some rather fervent ones at that.. I'm not saying there couldn't be some physiological differentiation creating a predisposition, but the model would be much more complex.
2006-11-21 14:18:47 · answer #3 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're right, it's been shown that brains are hardwired to sense pleasure/pain. But I wonder how you'd be able to test whether brains were hardwired for religious conviction or not. It's not clear to me that this type of processing would occur in the same region of the brain.
2006-11-21 14:18:43 · answer #4 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No atheists are the most unhardwired of them all. That is why they don't rely on group meetings to ensure them of their existence on this earth and they are probably deep down a lot more spiritual than most people.
2006-11-21 14:19:48 · answer #5 · answered by susan r 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have known many people who have been religious and moved to atheism, as well as atheists who find religion. If it was hard wired people would not oscillate between the two.
2006-11-21 14:19:02 · answer #6 · answered by M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only difference is that an atheist actually uses his/her brain and doesn't blindly accept 2000 year old mumbo-jumbo
2006-11-21 14:18:22 · answer #7 · answered by rosbif 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I guess it can be called hard wiring...
Atheists tend to believe everything can be, or has been figured out and this is all there is
Believers (of any religion) are open to accept that maybe we cannot figure it all out and this is probably not all there is.
2006-11-21 14:17:07 · answer #8 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope the Atheist brain is a knowledge and truth seeking brain.
2006-11-21 14:13:46 · answer #9 · answered by devilduck74 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, indeed, their brains are like sponges, full of holes and while they do soak up knowledge like a sponge they are, when all is said and done, all wet.
2006-11-21 14:32:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A religious person believes in God
An atheist does not believe in God
They are equallly stupid if they form their opinion without trying to find the truth themselves, because both are working on prejudices
2006-11-21 14:14:56 · answer #11 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋