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To me it proves neither, the existance or nonexistance of god. It was quite interesting though.
06-14-2010, 07:41 PM
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'Dawkins was reported not to have experienced a religious feeling. The report said:
Dr. Persinger explained his lack of effects. Before donning the helmet, Prof Dawkins had scored low on a psychological scale measuring temporal lobe sensitivity.'
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Last edited by Miss Blue; 06-17-2010 at 09:26 PM..
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It pretty much means nothing. If anything, it suggest ideas of God and other such things are dependent on the brain. Picture 4 has to be a joke. People are programmed for pattern recognition from birth.
There have been similar experiments such as this done in the past. One involved stimulating your frontal brain lobes to ketamine. Sure enough, many people soon after were seeing dead relatives, white lights, Jesus, Allah, Yoda, Buddha, ect.
Last edited by achickenchaser; 06-14-2010 at 08:38 PM..
I think religiously it proves nothing but scientificly it proves how influenced we are by external forces.
So, a magnetic field created god just like fungus created the devil??
(Those external forces again)
Quote:
One of the most concrete studies, published in Science in 1976 by psychologist Linnda Caporael, blamed the abnormal habits of the accused on the fungus ergot, which can be found in rye, wheat and other cereal grasses.
'Dawkins was reported not to have experienced a religious feeling. The report said:
Dr. Persinger explained his lack of effects. Before donning the helmet, Prof Dawkins had scored low on a psychological scale measuring temporal lobe sensitivity.'
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Hummmmm, temporal lobe sensitivity???? doesn't that have something to do with a humans ability to delude themselves?
Last edited by Miss Blue; 06-17-2010 at 09:27 PM..
I read the title and wondered deleted is this god called "Helmet"? Then naturally I thought of this:
I think I am ready to believe in the Schwartz.
This was my first thought
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