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more about #christianity more comments → mikecap: But the real question is: Since angels showed up in BSG and demonstrated/announced that there's only one god, is there an implicit denunciation of pa... more » twophrasebark: Everyone reads this study and... then sees exactly what they want out of it. Maybe we should run some MRIs of people reading studies about contentious... more » Mecharine: Obviously Santa is real. That poster Mulder had in his office, "I Believe", is really about Santa. more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Also, they need to test devout people of other faiths -- it would be awesome to test polytheists. And have the believers imagine conversations with pe... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: "The prefrontal cortex is key to theory of mind. Crucially, this area was inactive during the Santa Claus task, suggesting volunteers viewed Santa as ... more » icy_one: "while Christians said it was evidence that God is real" So, identical sections of the brain trigger when making a personal prayer (to God) or making ... more » Moff: You're not alone, Graeme -- the Santa question is a really good one. I know science happens in steps and that it's important to establish a sometimes ... more » Rasselas: If prayer is a conversation, it's a pretty one-sided one. Although to be fair God has probably heard it all before, making every prayer like hearing t... more » Altarkation: @: Unprotected sex is a "pleasure seeking behavior" that doesn't make it "not as irrational as it may outwardly appear".The fact that it makes some fo... more » corpore-metal: In other news MRI images indicate that people who think they enjoy something, stimulate the parts of their brains involved with enjoyment. Film at 11.... more » tetracycloide: this proves nothing we didn't already know, namely that religion is not as irrational as it may outwardly appear; clearly piety and prayer can be plea... more » ShashiFish: ITs funny. comments like this one. but at the same time true. The evangelical how we know already is dying. What is coming on is the Ultra, mega, hipe... more » Pope John Peeps II: The reason evangelical Christianity will ultimately fail is because it's the wrong type of religion for America at this time. The branches of evangeli... more » Ninevah: Hi io9: Where'd you get that photo? I really like it! more » Slatz_Grobnik: Yes, because the culture war is about to go away any moment now. Wait, what? Look, I've seen zero evidence that the gap between what, for shorthand, i... more » -
#godversusscienceround2
Science Proves That Christians Know God
Science may not be able to prove the existence of God, but brain scans on human subjects praying can definitely prove that people who talk to God like him/her/it a lot, apparently. More » -
#futureofreligion
The Coming Collapse Of Evangelical Christianity?
In The Christian Science Monitor, Michael Spencer predicts a massive collapse of evangelical Christianity within ten years. "Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants." And it gets worse. More »
