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Has anyone seen side by side images of brain scans of an atheist, agnostic, and a theist?
Each person being strong in their beliefs or non-beliefs. If so do you have the link to the actual image? If not and you honestly saw one, what did it show if it showed anything at all?
A brain scan of an artist is different from a scan of someone who isn't one, so why wouldn't they be different?
Shades of Gray:
I love a challenge:
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9605/19/perfect.pitch/br...
Just in case you can't read the small print:
The top says, "Musician with absolute pitch"
The bottom says, "nonmusician"
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http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2002/wriggles...
Now this image doesn't say the person is a artist or not, but it is clear that parts of the brain is working more in certain incidents.
So if you are saying that it makes no differences, then that claim that some atheists *cough* make, when they say that theists don't think things through is flawed. If that was the case a theist's brain scan would be different on several of those images.
Paul:
"Clearly a musician will be using different parts of their brain when listening to music, compared to a non-musician (sectors of the brain associated with finger movements to play an instrument, for example)."
That is true. Yet you can also conclude that a theist scan may be different when reading the bible in comparision to an atheist when reading a bible. Also a scan of a theist when asked what he thinks of God, might be totally different from an atheist when asked what he thinks of God. These differences could be really pronounced if the two were asked what they thought if God existed.
Thanks for your input.
6 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I haven't but I am going to guess it showed brains, brains, and brains.
Source(s): It was very hard not to joke about the last "brains". edit: man, all this talk of brains has made me hungry. edit2: "A brain scan of an artist is different from a scan of someone who isn't one" - can you provide evidence for this claim? I kind of doubt an artist brain is fundamentally different from a 'regular' brain. - Anonymous1 decade ago
I really doubt they are any different. Why would they be?
EDIT: what you're seeing in these scans is cerebral activity associated with a specific task. Clearly a musician will be using different parts of their brain when listening to music, compared to a non-musician (sectors of the brain associated with finger movements to play an instrument, for example).
Chances are that consideration of theism occurs in a discreet sector of the brain regardless of one's belief (or lack of belief). It's not likely that either theism, agnosticism or atheism requires multiple locus activity.
- Pokey ILv 41 decade ago
atheist, agnostics, and a theist generally have probably about the same amount of narrow minded people among them as religious people so they couldn't have looked a whole lot different than the brain scan of a jw, mormon, and a catholic.
- 1 decade ago
Atheist...Good healthy brain.
Agnostic...Good healthy brain.
Theist...Good healthy...( tumbleweed rolls past....Crickets chirp ) Hey Bob! are you sure you took the scans of this theist's brain? doesn't seem to be much here except a recipe for water and what looks like mouse droppings.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
The amount of superstition a person holds has very little, if any, effect on the shape and size of that person's brains.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Surely theists wouldn't have a brain as are unable to think for themselves.
