Pomaze Bog,

Čitam neke novine i paznju mi privuce slijedeci tekst:


Hardwired to believe

Humans are programmed to believe in God because it gives them a better chance of survival, researchers claim. A study into the way children's brains develop suggests that during the process of evolution those with religios tendencies began to benefit from their beliefs - possibly by working in groups to ensure the future of their community.
The findings of Bruce Hood, professor of developmental psychology at Bristol University, suggest that magical and super-natural belifs are hardwired into our brains from birth and that religions are therefore tapping into a powerful psychological force.

His work is supported by other researchers who have found evidence linking religious feelings and experience to particular regions of the brain. They suggest people are programmed to receive a feeling of spirituality from electrical activity in these areas.

Hood said he believed it was futile to try to get people to abandon their beliefs because these come from such a „fundamental level”.
„Our research shows children have a natural, intuitive way of reasoning that leads them to all kinds of supernatural beliefs about how the world works,” he said.„As they grow up they overlay these beliefs with more rational approaches, but the tendency to illogical supernatural beliefs remains as religion.”

The Rev Michael Reiss, professor of science education at London University's Institute of Education and an Angličan priest, said he saw no reason why such research should undermine religious belief.
„We are evolved creatures and the whole point about humanity is that we are rooted in the natural world,” he said.

„Mi smo ukorijenjeni u prirodnom svijetu”? - komentar je anglikanskog svestenika. To je sve??? Duh vremena ne zaobilazi ni Anglikansku crkvu! ne slusajte mene pricalicu, šta vi mislite postovani diskutanti (da posudim izraz od brata S_ covjeka cije su misli uvijek disciplinovane sto je velika vrlina)