Are the brains of atheists different to those of religious people?
The cognitive study of religion has recently reached a new, unknown land: the minds of unbelievers. Do atheists think differently from re
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The cognitive study of religion has recently reached a new, unknown land: the minds of unbelievers. Do atheists think differently from re
A recent study has examined whether atheists think differently from religious people. Miguel Farias focises on three key snapshots. The cognitive study of religion has recently reached a new, unknown land: the minds of unbelievers. Do atheists think differently from religious people? Is there something special about how their brains work? To illustrate what they’ve found, I will focus on three key snapshots. The first one, from 2003, is probably the most photogenic moment of “neuro-atheism”. Biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins travelled to the lab of Canadian neuroscientist Michael...
Atheists may think more analytically than religious people, but it is far from proven.