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In other words, when you shut down the part of the brain most associated with logic and reasoning, greater levels of atheism result.<ref>[http://americanvision.org/12630/atheists-embarrassed-study-proves-atheism-uses-less-brain-function/ Atheists embarrassed: study proves atheism uses less brain function]</ref>}}
 
In other words, when you shut down the part of the brain most associated with logic and reasoning, greater levels of atheism result.<ref>[http://americanvision.org/12630/atheists-embarrassed-study-proves-atheism-uses-less-brain-function/ Atheists embarrassed: study proves atheism uses less brain function]</ref>}}
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=== Religious individuals and thicker cerebral cortices ===
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According to the ''Journal of the American Medical Association - Psychiatry''  people who place a high importance of religion in their lives have thicker cerebral cortices and may be better able to fight depression.<ref>[http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/31/study-reveals-what-religion-and-spirituality-might-be-doing-for-the-human-brain/]</ref><ref>[http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1792140]</ref> See: [[Atheism and depression]]
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Thicker cerebral cortices in individuals is positively associated with higher intelligence.<ref>[http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/9/2163]</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 16:50, October 27, 2015

If naturalism is true, then we ought not to trust our capacity for reason for the human brain would be a byproduct of blind/unintelligent natural forces. [1]

Atheism/naturalism and reason are incompatible.[2] Therefore, believing in naturalism is self-defeating. In short, if naturalism is true, then we ought not to trust our capacity for reason for the human brain would be a byproduct of blind/unintelligent natural forces. [3]

C.S. Lewis's argument for reason and for the irrationality of materialism

Atheist worldview cannot explain consciousness

The atheist worldview cannot explain the existence of consciousness either and the theistic worldview can offer a reasonable explanation.[4]

Advocates of mind uploading (Mind uploading is the notion that someday mankind may be able to scan and upload their minds to computer storage mediums) are generally strong advocates of cryonics as well.[5] Mind uploading is not a feasible hypothesis.[6] See also: Atheism and cryonics

Existence of consciousness

Mind uploading: Wishful atheist thinking

Mind uploading is the notion that someday mankind may be able to scan and upload their minds to mechanical storage mediums. Mind loading is not feasible. According to the Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrum, the notion that one can upload one's mind into into mechanical storage mediums has its roots in atheistic/secular humanism and evolutionary ideologies.[7] The atheist, evolutionist and eugenicist Julian Huxley coined the term transhumanism.[8] See: Atheism and transhumanism

Information on the unfeasibility of mind uploading:

Atheism and brain function

See also: Atheism and brain function

Study involving magnetism, brain function and the posterior medial frontal cortex

See also: Causes of atheism and Atheism and logic and Atheism and logical fallacies

The organization American Vision wrote about a University of York study involving magnetism and brain function:

“ This has to be embarrassing . . . if you’re an atheist. A new study performed at the University of York used targeted magnetism to shut down part of the brain. The result: belief in God disappeared among more than 30 percent of participants.

That in itself may not seem so embarrassing, but consider that the specific part of the brain they frazzled was the posterior medial frontal cortex—the part associated with detecting and solving problems, i.e., reasoning and logic.

In other words, when you shut down the part of the brain most associated with logic and reasoning, greater levels of atheism result.[9]

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Religious individuals and thicker cerebral cortices

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association - Psychiatry people who place a high importance of religion in their lives have thicker cerebral cortices and may be better able to fight depression.[10][11] See: Atheism and depression

Thicker cerebral cortices in individuals is positively associated with higher intelligence.[12]

See also

References

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  4. ↑ The Argument from Consciousness for the Existence of God by John Piippo, 3/20/2012
  5. ↑ Mind uploading - Thought experiments as knowledge
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  7. ↑ A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT, Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
  8. ↑ A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT, Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
  9. ↑ Atheists embarrassed: study proves atheism uses less brain function
  10. ↑ [1]
  11. ↑ [2]
  12. ↑ [3]
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