--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Fr. Ivo C da Souza <[email protected]> wrote: > > ***Dr. Mario Beauregard is a professional neuroscientist. > His books have been peer-reviewed and internationally > accepted. His authority is being accepted everywhere. > From: Santosh Helekar <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Neuroscience, God and Soul
I guess, in the face of this malarkey, the best thing to do is to quote how this book was trashed by Douglas Mesner, a professional scientific reviewer. Here is his concluding paragraph. QUOTE A "science" book that attempts to justify supernaturalism sometimes holds a certain entertainment value as it attempts to explain away contradictory evidence with contortions of logic. Since The Spiritual Brain merely ignored any data that troubled its thesis, we're denied any such entertainment here. Searching for some redeeming quality, we might be amused at the book's tone as it oscillates from indignant confidence to near-resignation, confessing that the soul's existence cannot be proven. It's similar to the perverse entertainment one might find in witnessing a street-preacher who, while engaged in solo argument ... finds that he is losing. UNQUOTE Mario observes: As the only voice on Goanet for truth, reason and peace, it seems to me that the perverse entertainment - for those of us not engaged in the discussion - comes from these periodic attempts to justify either supernaturalism or atheism. The agnostics are on safer ground though sitting on the fence must be hard on their posteriors as well:-)) I think such endless discussions in the past have clearly established that a) the hypothesis that a supernatural being exists cannot be proven conclusively by the rigorous standards of science, whereas, b) science is unable to prove conclusively that a supernatural being does not exist. However, as a defender of free speech, I have absolutely no objections to being perversely entertained if I so choose, or move on to some other topic when I have been entertained enough by this one:-))
