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- Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Medicine - Neurology, Psychiatry, Addiction, grade: none, National University of Singapore, language: English, abstract: The age old chicken-or-the-egg question: Did the brain create God, or God create the brain? Here I discuss the scientific evidences of either. You can make your own conclusion at the end of the essay.
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Assess the claim that there is a neurophysiological basis for religious beliefs.
Introduction
Every country, every race, every people around the world have their religions, just like they have their own cultures and traditions. Although every religion evolves around different deities, different values and different practices, they all meet the same need—the need of the human race to have a meaning in life and to seek a refuge in a higher being. The fact that various groups of human beings with distinctly different lifestyles and cultures actually have this consistency of having a religion brings to attention that religion may in fact be an inherent need of human beings. Why would religion be an inherent need? Many scientists, psychologists and philosophers have proposed that this need may be related to how the human brain has been wired, and wired to need something called ‘God’.
Neurotheology is a new study that has emerged from the attempt to link religion to the brain. It is the study that unites two seemingly unrelated entities--religion and the brain--in the hopes of being able to better understand both entities. By investigating the link between the brain and religion, controversies have arisen as to whether religious experiences and God could be reduced to nothing more than the result of brain functions. This theory is termed as reductionism.
