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"Tatman, Robert" wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
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> The human brain has receptors for an astounding number of substances and
> phenomena, which science is just beginning to realize. There are receptors
> for morphine, Prozac, nicotine, alcohol, for ecstasy, both physical and
> aesthetic; there are receptors that are so multiply-redundant that the brain
> looks like an engineer's kludge. The surprising thing is not that there is a
> "God module" or "God receptor." It would be surprising if it were *not*
> there and we were really only talking to the other side of our brains.
Even with the *god module* who says that's not the case? The possible
existence of *god receptors* in the brain only indicates that there was a
long-standing biological need for the species to BELIEVE in a supernatural
Big Daddy. It says nothing about whether or not such a being really exists.
> What's surprising is that it took so long for science to accept something
> that the rest of humanity has known for thousands of years.
Science does not yet accept this hypothesis. It is not a fact. It is only
speculation at this point. The rest of humanity hasn't known shit for
thousands of years. Early humans lived in a fearful world of real and imagined
dangers. A brain mechanism for the reduction of terror and stress was clearly
warranted.
Don't get carried away here. It took a long time for
humans to break away from religious supernaturalism enough to establish the
sciences, and even today, Kansans think that creationism is in the same ball
park as evolution. This is due to the negative effects of a vestigial * god
module.*
> This does not
> "prove" the truth of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, S*ientology, or
> the Church of the SubGenius.
On the contrary. It proves that they are absurd concoctions generated by a part
of the brain that not only no longer serves a positive biological function,
but has now become a hindrance to further evolution. Like the vestigial
appendix.
> What it *does* demonstrate is that the human
> race is hardwired to look beyond itself, beyond the reality of the normal
> senses, for answers to its questions about the meaning of existence.
Oh really? Do you think that Neanderthals and early Homo Sapiens had that kind
of sophistication as far back as 60,000 or 100,000 years ago? Not bloody
likely. It is more likely that the early ones buried there dead ceremonially
with trinkets because they simply did not want death to be final. JUST LIKE
TODAY.
> It also
> suggests a hard, physiological reason for the parallels in religious
> experience between traditions radically different in belief and practice.
Not at all. It only suggests that all ( most ) people still need to invent
a buffer to deal with the harsher aspects of life and death.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 3:12 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
> >
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > Kris Millegan wrote:
> > >
> > > Fairytales.
> > > Om
> > > k
> >
> > Brain researchers find 'God module'
> > Los Angeles Times
> > [re-post]
> >
> > NEW ORLEANS -- No one knows why humanity felt its first religious
> > stirrings, but researchers at University of California, San Diego,
> > reported
> > Tuesday that the human brain may be hard-wired to hear the voice of
> > heaven.
> >
> <snip>
The last sentence here is VERY presumptuous. There is evidence for hardwiring
but none for voices from heaven.
Joshua2
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