Despite the fact that religion is present in all cultures, and it is widely promoted around the world, scientists have yet to determine if religious belief is in any way different from normal cognition. While it is clear that the human brain reacts differently to religious or non-religious statements, the basic mecha... |
5 October 2009
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A new scientific paper, published in this week's edition of the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes to prove that the human brain doesn't have a single “God spot” in it, but rather that belief in a higher power is the trigger for increased activity in certai... |
10 March 2009
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Over the past few decades, researchers have been deeply interested in the way men and women perceive the notion of a god, or a higher, universal spirit. During the first such research, it came as no surprise to anyone that women believed in such entities more than men, but, in truth, no one could say for sure why tha... |
2 March 2009
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The idea of a god or goddess, no matter how old, has always been responsible for a single thing, namely bringing people together, especially in times of need. Religion may have very well played a part in the aggregation of the first human societies, when people were much more exposed to the whims of nature than they ... |
5 February 2009
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Christmas is, perhaps, the holiday dearest to the majority of people. Almost everybody likes snow, fir trees, presents and to believe in Santa Claus. Although they know it's not real, parents tend to perpetuate the myth of the red-suited jolly old man that brings presents for everyone during Christmas Eve. They ... |
9 December 2008
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People's minds also work in mysterious ways, it seems, as the fortunetelling websites of a Japanese company attract more and more paying visitors by the day. It is amazing to observe what people secretly tend to believe in, although the official statistics and face-to-face declarations prove otherwise. But Inter... |
2 December 2008
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Belief in a higher and influential power has existed on Earth as far back as the first people. Be it that they worshiped fire, water, the air or the Sun, people have always felt the necessity of having someone above them to turn to when things get rough. This need was the subject of a new, first-of-its-kind scientifi... |
1 November 2008
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Lewis Wolpert from the University College, London wrote a book on the false belief systems, called "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast," where he explains how our evolution and the development of our tools may have influenced our belief in supernatural events. Many – if not most – people in our ... |
18 September 2008
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