Article on CNN today discussing "neurotheology" and how the brain evolved to believe in god. Among the quotes, "Religion is a byproduct of many different evolutionary functions that organized our brains for day-to-day activity."
The whole article is here: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/04/neurotheology/index.html
If you're going to take the "Goddidit" stance at least bother to take the 3 minutes it would take you to read the article.
2007-04-05 04:41:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you for sharing.
Similar (& more detailed article) here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?ex=1330837200&en=be2b80235e0bbc91&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
:-)
2007-04-05 05:07:05 · answer #1 · answered by ducky0501 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, we're not puzzling-under pressure for faith. human beings are puzzling-under pressure for perception, and there's a great distinction (quite YOUR religious motivations). there is not any genuine way that we are able to independently justify each thing we study. consequently, daily we hire a great quantity of perception as we circulate by the international. maximum of what we "be attentive to" are quite only ideals. that does no longer translate into faith and faith, and the incontrovertible fact which you try to stretch it to that shows that there is a great project between reason and faith interior the twenty first century.
2016-10-21 02:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there has been more research on this topic than what this article refers to. I think the headline is slightly deceptive: we seem hardwired for religious experience rather than faith. Faith more likely has to do with what we make of our experience.
It doesn't mean "it's all in our head" anymore than the fact that we are hardwired for color does, and the fact that some people are color-blind doesn't mean that color doesn't exist.
2007-04-05 05:22:24 · answer #3 · answered by a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is such a cool question. I like to think that God created a way for us to communicate with him directly, through prayer - either with actual spoken words or just by 'thinking at him'.
2007-04-05 04:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by Curiosity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To quote the famous statement by another Pascal, "In every man there is a God shaped vacuum and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in him".
2007-04-05 04:51:33 · answer #5 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. "Faith" is programmed into people. I have no "Faith". So if we're hard-wired for it how could I have escaped it?
What we ARE hard-wired for is believing what our parents and other adults tell us when we are children. This is what passes beliefs onto the next generations.
2007-04-05 04:55:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said that it was free will so how can we be hardwired to believe in God when we have a choice?
2007-04-05 05:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by G.W. loves winter! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've seen studies to this effect before; since we're hard-wired to make correlation between things that could be unrelated, it certainly is possible.
2007-04-05 04:57:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Apparently, god forgot to give me the "faith gene."
2007-04-05 04:49:45 · answer #9 · answered by Ũniνέгsäl Рдnтsthέisт™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no that is what i expect from the usa the church run the news as well and the goverment
2007-04-05 04:52:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋