New research provides fascinating insight into brain changes that might underlie alterations in spiritual and religious attitudes. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 11 issue of the journal Neuron, explores the neural basis of spirituality by studying patients before and after surgery to remove a brain tumor...
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February 12, 2010
Selective Brain Damage Modulates Human Spirituality
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November 20, 2009
Do atheists make better parents?
I've done a few posts recently about fertility, so how about the next stage, parenthood? How do non-religious parents differ from religious ones?Here's a study by Bart Duriez, from the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium, which looks into just that. He quizzed over 900 secondary school students in Belgium about their religious attitudes and their parents approaches to parenting. He also asked
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July 12, 2009
Are American scientists getting more religious?
Razib at Gene Expression has the lowdown on a new survey comparing social, political and religious attitudes of scientists with the general public. Unsurprisingly, there's a huge gulf between the two groups. While 41% of the scientists said they didn't believe in god or in a high power, just 4% of the general public said the same.There's one statistic that is rather unexpected, however. As you ca
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