Comments on: This is Your Brain on God

By: The Squirrel

The Squirrel — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:36:30 +0000

This entire article is conjecture based on an insignificant set of data. I wouldn’t waste my time evaluating it.

As for Science Vs. Religion. I leave that to you.

By: Serena C.

Serena C. — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:28:56 +0000

i’m an agnostic. this means, to me, that i doubt my faith…and not yours.

that said, i agree with the more moderate thoughts in this comment space: i think if the extremes from both religious and scientific might stop focusing on what they disagree on, and instead focus on more common ground, we may be able to move forward with our intelligent thought(s)…as opposed to stagnation.

are they just ‘glass-half-empty’ kind of people?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:37:05 +0000

God is the metamorphosis of man.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:07:07 +0000

It all boils down to one, alas, unanswerable question: Which is cause and which is effect?

By: Celeste M.

Celeste M. — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:40:16 +0000

I don’t think it proves anything either way. But it makes me wonder what the “god module” really entails. I’m agnostic, so I’m more inclined to believe it includes things such as philosophy and general spirituality. Surely not everyone they studied was religious, or already believe in paranormal things, or whatever it was that manifested after the seizures..?

By: tona b.

tona b. — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:04:44 +0000

The ‘god module’ is the genetic implant put into us by the aliens, who will use them to easily subdue, then harvest us near the ‘end times’… obviously! ;p

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:49:59 +0000

Who is to say either one is right? My personal beliefs are that science is the proof that God exists. I feel that God created everyone and everything and that includes science, which he created to allow things to progress systematically and orderly. But that is my beliefs.

By: lady H

lady H — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:04:17 +0000

I would have to say as a Biology/Psychology double major (one year left, yay!) That Sarah, Boiler Bob, and Bill-Al have a good point. Yes, religious people have persecuted science, but it does go both ways. I have seen sciece persecute those with religious beliefs, even when they are not bringing them into the science discussion.

If you really want to go back, it was Plato who first seperated the things spiritual realm and those of the physical realm.

There is no reason to seperate the two, and there isn’t a lot of reason that they should be pitted against each other. Everyone can have their own beliefs, but the truth will always be true.

By: frodopal

frodopal — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:35:23 +0000

Fascinating. I love the idea that we each have our own little chunks of brain that are connected to faith and God. It reinforces my belief that we each have the capacity to have our own relationship with a Higher Power irrespective of anyone else’s version.

I agree with Sarah in that it’s not really an Either/Or situation. Confidence in the methods of science and faith in the power of God are not mutually exclusive; there are many of us believers who are proof of that despite other believers in only one or the other who want to discount the rest of us. You can go to your Heaven without me if that’s how you feel; I’ve got my own journey ahead that’s independent of your dogmatic structure.

I think we need less argument and more acceptance that others can feel very differently because there isn’t One Right Answer to any question that truly matters in existence.

Just my two cents…

By: Vorple

Vorple — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:20:47 +0000

I think religion is incompatible with science and that the less religion persecutes science, the better.