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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science - Part 6 of 6

Valerie Tarico
Posted: November 10, 2009.

Print: Huffington Post

Brain science is remarkably close to offering a full naturalistic explanation of individual religious experiences, everything from certain belief to moral indignation to mystical rapture to spiritual transformation. This article wraps up a series reviewing current knowlege and concludes that more and more supernatural explanations of religious experience are simply unnecessary.

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