There is no way to prove love exists. Science suggests that the "love" mechanism is triggered by chemicals in the brain (endorphines, seratonin, etc) being conditionally released by the body upon contact with another person (thereby rendering the feeling essentially a drug-induced high). Sure, we can show another we love them, but isn't it just showing them we're addicted to "love"?
2007-06-25 08:28:16 · 22 answers · asked by randyken 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You're kidding, right?
2007-06-25 08:30:56 · answer #1 · answered by James 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
And how does deluding this process with talk of a supernatural being giving us "love" change the process?
It's not atheists, it's everyone. We all have chemicals that control our feelings and perception. It's all a chemical and electrical mixture that people want to romanticize. But that doesn't change the fact that our brains are the center of all of our reactions and functions.
2007-06-25 08:34:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All emotions are based upon chemical reactions in the brain and the body's response to stimuli. That doesn't make them any less real. All humans experience them (barring some sort of chemical abnormality), and understanding what they are doesn't make them less important. So yes, of course atheists can fall in love. We just don't typically need magic to explain it.
2007-06-25 08:32:50 · answer #3 · answered by N 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As we better understand brain chemistry we will be able to better understand what the physiologic basis for the feeling of love is.
CT scan imaging of cerebral oxygen metabolism has already shown that certain areas of the brain are more active when one thinks about someone they love.
Its a nut that is starting to crack.
2007-06-25 08:35:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, just because I don't believe in your god doesn't mean I can't fall in love.
To think that the other's love for you depends on their continued acceptance of God undermines love. Love, as the greatest emotion, should be independent of God, his control or power, it comes from within. To say otherwise is dishonest and undermines the value of love and relationships.
2007-06-25 08:32:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure.
Just be sure to wear a life vest and have a rope tied around yer neck in case you knead to drag yerself back out.
me
2007-06-25 14:10:51 · answer #6 · answered by dave777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you read music? Does a musician lose the ability to enjoy the feelings induced by music, just because he can decipher the notes?
2007-06-25 08:32:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Reading the text that followed your main question, I find myself wondering just WHAT atheists have to do with your query. You could have substituted "left-handers," "heterosexuals," "people with blue eyes," or "stamp collectors" for atheists, and it wouldn't have changed a thing.
HUNG UP on atheists, are you?
What have atheists ever done to you, for you to single them out in this totally irrelevant manner?
2007-06-25 09:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is for everyone, some people take advantage of it and it is much harder for others. We are all equals in this love stuff, even though it seems that some people are luckier than others.
2007-06-26 00:50:40 · answer #9 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so according to your logic the religious believers are not held to Earth by gravity since it is science, and they do not eat food to break down into nutrients as per biology..religious just eat to destroy other life I guess, also I assume that the religious are not made of carbon based atoms since that would be chemistry
2007-06-25 08:34:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only after they force 6 women to have abortions, eat 6 babies, and euthanize 6 terminally ill elderly patients. 666...the Devil has no originality.
2007-06-25 08:35:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋