<div class="gmail_extra">Very disappointing, the article starts in a acceptable manner trying to list all the evidence that spiritual experiences are nothing else than neurons firing then in a strange twist the authors invoke dark matter and the possible holes in scientific understanding of the world to still give a last chance to a mystical explanation of spiritual experiences, to justify the ignorance of faith, to allow for it to be still considered a virtue. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra">It will just add to the confusion of believers that use often science in a completely unjustified way to support their belief, as for example energy conservation to use as evidence that consciousness would survive death of the physical body. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Giovanni</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:49 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">What do you guys make of this?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/04/22/can-faith-reside-within-brain/" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/04/22/can-faith-reside-within-brain/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There are comments in there which have the ring of truth, almost appropriate for an afterword to Sagan’s excellent work the Demon Haunted World.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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