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““How to win an argument with a How to win an argument with a creationist”creationist”BCC Focus Magazine

““Searching for God in The Searching for God in The Brain”Brain”

www.scientificamerican.com

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Is the identification of Is the identification of brain’s functions associated brain’s functions associated with mystical experiences a with mystical experiences a prove of God’s existence or prove of God’s existence or

a consequence of men’s a consequence of men’s evolutionary process?evolutionary process?

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Evolution Evolution ..

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““God in the Brain”God in the Brain”

•Researchers are attempting to pin down what happens in the brain when people experience mystical awakenings during religious activities.

•Darwinists attributes every function of human body to the natural selection process.

•Researchers assume the positive effect of religious experiences in making people happier, healthier and better able to concentrate.

•For Darwinists survivorship depends on the adaptability to the environment.

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““God in the Brain”God in the Brain”

“The height of this meditative trance was associated with both a large drop in activity in a portion of the

parietal lob, which encompasses the upper back of the brain, and an increase in activity in the right prefrontal

cortex, which resides behind the forehead.”

Is the believe in God part of the human beings’ evolutionary process?

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Evolution?Evolution?

“Finding spirituality in the brain implies that religion is nothing more than divine delusion.”

•A physical and psychological process.

•Feelings can be related to specifics brain’s activities.

•The brain is a result of the evolutionary process.

•It is possible to induce the feelings of faith artificially.

•Therefore, God is an illusion produced by the human being’s brain.

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God’s InexistenceGod’s Inexistence

To prove that specific areas of our brain are

responsible for the development of feelings

related to faithful spiritual experiences is

to deny God’s existence as a being outside man.

He is, therefore, a product of human mind

and does not exist independently of men.

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Scientific prove of Scientific prove of God’s God’s ..

Existence Existence ..

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““God in the Brain”God in the Brain”

“There is no single God spot, localized uniquely in the temporal lobe of the human brain. These states are

mediated by a neural network that is well distributed throughout the brain.”

•Individual differences might exist in the brain’s activities related to religious feelings.

•If the development of God in the brain was a result of evolution, it should has common mechanisms of producing feelings.

•The nun experience of God during the scanner was a emotionally powerful memory of union with God.

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God’s Existence?God’s Existence?

•“God can’t be summoned at will”.

•The brain activities, peculiar to mystical experiences, shows how God interacts with people.

•The brain scans provide confirmation of God’s interactions with people.

•For the nuns, serenity does not come from a sense of God in their brains, but from an awareness of God with them in the world.

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We are still not able to completely understand the roots of religious

feelings, therefore, we cannot deny God’s existence based on the

information we have.

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Science vs. God Science vs. God ..

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Dilemma Dilemma

•Researchers couldn’t find singularities in brain’s activities that would related God to specifics mental processes.

•People may have different ways of accessing God.

•The necessity of spirituality is common to the human beings.

•Common characteristics constitutes the essence of a specie.

•The essence of a specie is defined by the evolutionary process.

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CreationCreation

•Science proved the evolutionary process as being natural in the environment.

•The believe in God is, therefore, a consequence of evolution.

"If God did not exist, He would have to be invented."

Voltaire

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Conclusion Conclusion ..

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Science’s explanations overcomes the Science’s explanations overcomes the religious versionsreligious versions

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Science’s explanations overcomes the Science’s explanations overcomes the religious versionsreligious versions

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Science’s explanations overcomes the Science’s explanations overcomes the religious versionsreligious versions