We did a cool out-of-the ordinary science story this week—”The ‘Search’ for God: Growing field of neurotheology explores the biology of religion.” More researchers are trying to find “spirituality” in brain scans the way we’ve been trying to find language and visual processing, and it seems like the tools we have (fMRI, EEG, etc.) may may finally be good enough. Or the European Union thinks so, and is spending 2 million euros in its project to “Explain Religion.”
Will finding the source of religion in the micro-bits and pathways of our bodies will tell us Great Truths? At least greater than Fantastic Voyage, I hope.
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