Tag: Mind
Is God an Accident?
by Paul Bloom September 30, 2010.
Print: Atlantic Magazine
Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for the similarities between religions. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question…
Religious Experience Linked to Brain’s Social Regions
Brandon Keim October 6, 2009.
Print: Wired Magazine
Brain scans of people who believe in God have found further evidence that religion involves neurological regions vital for social intelligence.
In other words, whether or not God or Gods exist, religious belief may have been quite useful in shaping the human mind’s evolution.
The Religious Mind
March 10, 2009.
