[ExI] scientists locate god spot in brain

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Wed Mar 11 04:32:33 UTC 2009


Well, no, they exactly *didn't*:


<"That suggests that religion is not a special case of a belief 
system, but evolved along with other belief and social cognitive 
abilities," said Jordan Grafman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the 
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.

Such results fit with previous research which shows that no single 
"God spot" exists in the brain.>




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