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How your brain creates God? (Evos try to reduce God to natural by-product of how brain works)
CMI ^ | March 10, 2009 | Adrian Bates

Posted on 03/10/2009 10:32:03 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

The journal New Scientist has recently run an article called Born Believers: How your brain creates God (especially in hard financial times)1… Towards the latter end of the article is a disclaimer that ‘All the researchers involved stress that none of this says anything about the existence or otherwise of gods.’ However, the tenor of the article, including the title, militates strongly that the author’s preferred reality is that, yes folks, “your brain creates God.”

The article initially suggests that “God” is created in our brains as a result of “an evolutionary adaptation that makes people more likely to survive”. However it then points out that this theory is not accepted by many in the evolutionary community. Blithely over-riding this hiccup, it then launches into an alternate, conflicting theory that “religion emerges as a natural by-product of the way the human mind works”...

(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: brain; catholic; christian; creation; evolution; god; goodgodimnutz; intelligentdesign; irreligiousleft; moralabsolutes; newscientist; religion; richarddawkins; romans215
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To: NicknamedBob
OK, then I suppose the next question would be when did we get the canines. According to the last article, we had always been vegetarians and we should go back to that. So, did our ancestors have canines or is this Doctor who wrote this article all wet?

Also, what about our digestive system. The Doc in the last article I read doesn't seem to think that we should eat meat because our track can't handle it. And our body can develop disease from it. I don't believe all that. I had gizzards tonight, just in case one might ask about my diet. I am a firm believer that there is room for all God's creatures, right next to my mashed taters.

141 posted on 03/11/2009 7:27:48 PM PDT by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. - One of General Abram's men)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Let me get this straight... evolution created a brain to believe in God because that ensured the survival of the fitest, but there is no God? And the big bang created everything from nothing, but there is no God? My head hurts. Does science have a golden idol I can worship?
142 posted on 03/11/2009 7:31:53 PM PDT by DejaJude
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To: do the dhue
"So, did our ancestors have canines or is this Doctor who wrote this article all wet?"

I wouldn't say he is entirely all wet. He may have provided some useful information.

Did we always have canines? Yes, we did. They slept near the mouth of the cave.

143 posted on 03/11/2009 7:32:03 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("Of what possible use is it to BE a genius, if you can't even get a bottle of beer open?" NnB to Tn1)
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To: NicknamedBob

LOL

IMHO, I would say that our intestines, stomach acid, saliva, and heart would evolve to accept meat after years of eating it. Maybe smaller portions is the key. But still, if there was evolution, I think our heart would eventually develop a mechanism to accept more red meat. Just my opinion.


144 posted on 03/11/2009 7:39:40 PM PDT by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. - One of General Abram's men)
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To: DejaJude
==My head hurts. Does science have a golden idol I can worship?

Funny you should ask:


145 posted on 03/11/2009 7:49:31 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: do the dhue
"But still, if there was evolution, I think our heart would eventually develop a mechanism to accept more red meat. Just my opinion."

Our bodies, and our hearts, are probably as "evolved" as they need to be for the digestion of meat.

The scenario is this; "With two yoke of oxen, and one spotted hog, a tall Shanghai rooster and an old yeller dog". -- Why the animals?

Because where Sweet Betsy was going, they needed animals and animal products just to survive.

We are more fortunate now. We may, if we choose, eschew the eating of meat altogether. Our dietary variation in most cultures is sufficient to let us remain healthy anyway if we are careful and wise.

Evolution is not the magic wand some may perceive or fear. The heart would be unlikely to change much for dietary reasons. As far as evolution is concerned, you are pretty much on your own after you have produced children. Since heart problems typically surface long after child-bearing occurs, they are not affected directly by evolutionary pressures.

146 posted on 03/11/2009 7:51:26 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("Of what possible use is it to BE a genius, if you can't even get a bottle of beer open?" NnB to Tn1)
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To: DejaJude
Does science have a golden idol I can worship?

Scientism, It has an altar, which is science itself. And it has its shamans. 

147 posted on 03/11/2009 8:00:35 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: NicknamedBob
Interesting enough. Something to think about anyway. I still see no real proof of evolution in our lives.

I may not reply right away. I am hiribist hunting on youtube.

This is a good way to spend time:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198104/posts

We can use all the help we can get too.

148 posted on 03/11/2009 8:25:16 PM PDT by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. - One of General Abram's men)
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To: xcamel

That’s some cult gripping you by the throat there, sunshine.


149 posted on 03/11/2009 8:28:35 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: valkyry1; DejaJude

Does science have a golden idol I can worship?

Scientism, It has an altar, which is science itself. And it has its shamans.


Yes, several in fact...taxpayer money to study reproduction of trout...

And algore got himself a nobel prize for his particular cult.


150 posted on 03/11/2009 8:34:10 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: ripley
Should read: “How Your Brain Creates, Lives and Furthers the Socialist Revolution”

That would the absence of a brain.
151 posted on 03/11/2009 8:35:58 PM PDT by Naspino (Not creative enough to have a tagline.)
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To: metmom

Ah.. so the truth comes out, and I was right again...


152 posted on 03/12/2009 2:45:17 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Jim Robinson

Thank you, Jim Robinson!


153 posted on 12/06/2009 8:15:41 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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