No, I mean I want you to show me where it's well established. Peer review studies, etc.
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Evidence for the Existence of Love
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Here are a few...
Is the “God Spot” Rooted Far Below Our Brain’s Thinking Cap?
Beyond a single "God Spot," a new study identifies neural circuitry buried within a primal part of the human brain that may be tied to hyper-religiosity or a lack of spirituality.
The neuroscience of religious and spiritual experience
Have you ever wondered what happens in the brain when you believe in God? We take a look at neuroscientific studies that may explain spiritual experience.
www.medicalnewstoday.com
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
There is no evidence is that God only dwells conceptually in people's minds and imagination and is absolutely nowhere else.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'd love to see where else it is.
I'm quite familiar with Andrew Newberg's work, and actually own and have read a book he co-authored with Mark Robert Waldman "How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain".Here are a few...
Is the “God Spot” Rooted Far Below Our Brain’s Thinking Cap?
Beyond a single "God Spot," a new study identifies neural circuitry buried within a primal part of the human brain that may be tied to hyper-religiosity or a lack of spirituality.www.psychologytoday.com
The neuroscience of religious and spiritual experience
Have you ever wondered what happens in the brain when you believe in God? We take a look at neuroscientific studies that may explain spiritual experience.
Nowhere in either article or in the book do they refer to these spiritual or god experiences as "imagination" and "fantasy." These are actual measurable activities in the brain.
Everything you experience that you consider "real" is just electrical signals interpreted by your brain, just as these are. No need for condescending statements calling the experiences mentioned in my last paragraph above "imagination" or "fantasy" just because your brain hasn't experienced them.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
No one has ever 'seen God' because that has never been permitted by God.
Exodus 33:20 But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”
John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Have you checked behind Waldo?
Heyo
Veteran Member
The absence of peer reviewed studies is evidence.
Heyo
Veteran Member
Imaginations and fantasies are also measurable activities in the brain.
Not only that what you consider real. In fact, you'd have difficulties to discern patterns based on physical sensory input from pure fantasy in a scan of the cerebral cortex.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence.
Absolutely. Can you list the experiences that are not?
Ever wonder why that is?
Heyo
Veteran Member
Absence of evidence is evidence when you'd expect it had to be there.
There is currently an absence of evidence of life beyond earth. So that must be evidence that there is no life beyond earth, no?
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
The absence of peer reviewed studies on God is evidence that God doesn't exist?
Now I've heard everything.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
So if there is life beyond earth why can't God exist beyond earth?
God certainly isn't checked in at the Hilton.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
If there was evidence for God I certainly wouldn't expect it to be in peer-reviewed journals.
Do you have evidence for this?
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
No, but I could get the evidence by calling the Hilton.
Do you really think he'd be using his real name in the register?
Arthur Brain
Member
Does that apply to hate as well? Or any other term that's kinda convenient?
I've had multiple convos on this topic and often it generates around 'intellectualism' around the subject and they don't really go anywhere in essence. I doubt anyone here who's invested in the topic has never been affected by people 'dear' to them or would reduce their close ones to chemical responses in the brain either when pressed.