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My Nose, My Brain, My Faith, by: DAVID VAN BIEMA  By DAVID VAN BIEMA Jan. 10, 2008 Your nose is one of the less complicated parts of your body, and yet we credit it with considerable intelligence in the area of truth vs. falsehood. We “sniff out a lie.” We say “something smells fishy.” Now studies suggest that something more than metaphor may be at work here--specifically, brain science. The same research may also shed unexpected light on religious faith. [More] | SixPolitical prisoner Bahá'ídouble leaderstrialed arrestedfor in"insulting IranSixIslamic Bahá'íscared leaderss" |
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| Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks by: Sam Harris  Geert Wilders, conservative Dutch politician and provocateur, has become the latest projectile in the world's most important culture war: the zero-sum conflict between civil society and traditional Islam. Wilders, who lives under perpetual armed guard due to death threats, recently released a 15 minute film entitled Fitna ("strife" in Arabic) over the internet. More Are You Going to hell? by: Louis Bayard By Louis Bayard This phenomenon of religious experience is one of the oldest in our documented history as a species. And so, rather than simply say, “There is no God, end of story, everyone who believes that is an idiot or deluded or weak-minded,” I wanted to go out and embrace the idea that religious experience is a real and valuable part of existence—regardless of whether you believe in God. [More] Louis Bayard's Website | A brief response to Irreducible complexity, By: Arash Daklan  The idea of irreducible complexity, in my point of view, is suffering from a very strong presupposition. For an example see Michael Behe (1996)[i] and also Minnish and Meyer (2004)[ii]. Behe uses a mouse trap as an example to show that there are some organisms which cannot have functions without each one of its parts. This approach is flawed for two reasons. At first, it is not important that a mouse trap has not its function, unless it is completed. More | A Neurology of Belief, by: American Neurological Association The notion that all mental acts, all mental processes and dispositions have specific neural correlates has become much easier to explore in the past 15 years with the development of PET scanning and especially functional MRI. We can now, for example, demonstrate activity in the visual cortex when a subject views a test object, and we can pick up similar activity if we ask the subject to imagine or make a mental picture of what the object looks like. Functional brain imagery has also been used in relation to more complex mental processes, such as those involved in economic decisions. There have, however, been no comparable studies addressed to the neural correlates of belief in general until Harris, Sheth, and Cohen’s pioneering article in the present issue of Annals of Neurology. [More] |
