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Does it not stand to reason that if your field is "neurotheology", you need to be "open to both perspectives"?
by tjr 16y ago
Does it not stand to reason that if your field is "neurotheology", you need to be "open to both perspectives"?
- KiwiNige 16y agoI'd tip that being open to the hand of God being involved helps to get some of the participants to engage in the project.
- hugh3 16y agoWhat legitimate scientific questions can this field answer anyway? What falsifiable hypotheses can it disprove? Different areas of your brain light up in the FMRI when you're thinking about different things; we've known this for decades, but it hasn't proved much in particular.
- hugh3 16y agoI've often wanted to start up a research institute devoted to scientifically answering the question of whether one or more gods actually exists via experiment. We may not be able to completely disprove the hypothesis, but we can certainly narrow down the range of gods which might exist. For instance, some folks reckon that God will smite you if you burn a Koran, so we could burn a Koran and see what happens. Also, who knows, we might experimentally prove that there is one or more gods. That would be interesting!