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There's a world of difference between "believing in God affects our brains" and "HOW GOD CHANGES YOUR BRAIN".

• tesseract 17y ago
  Yeah, one of them will sell more books.
  • codexon 17y ago
    No. One of them explicitly suggests that God exists and undertakes a non-scientific point of view while the other does not.
    • amix 17y ago
      If he has done experiments and research to see how belief of God affects the brain, then his approach could be scientific and he may even conclude that belief in God affects the brains of partitioners. Reading on Wikipedia he has also researched "non God" religions such as Buddhism - - and he has found out that stuff like meditation (and praying) affects the partitioner's brain. And really, as somebody has noted it above: it's very plausible that belief changes our brains, given that most humans throughout our history have had belief. And research in belief is _very_ interesting and might put light on why most of the humans today believe in something.
      • theblackbox 17y ago
        you mean practitioners? surely? Normally I would put aside my Grammar Nazi persona, but you make the mistake twice, so I feel compelled to intervene.
    • Tichy 17y ago
      To me it sounds a lot like a title fabricated to sell more books. According to the Amazon review, he also writes about techniques that atheists can use that have similar effects. He just seems to be good at marketing - the "yawn" article seems to be another incarnation of that. I remember all sorts of newspapers picking up the "belief affects the brain" stuff, and yawning makes a good story, too.