IEET Contributor Valerie Tarico explains why religion is a false belief, and how science can better understand the world around us. Christianity Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 8. (Last in Series)
Brain science is remarkably close to offering a full naturalistic explanation of individual religious experiences, everything from certain belief to moral indignation to mystical rapture to spiritual transformation. More and more, we can explain Christian belief with the same set of principles that explain supernaturalism generally: childhood credulity, hyperactive agency detection, theory of mind, group hypnotic processes, misattributed transcendence hallucination, viral transmission, and more.



IEET Contributor Valerie Tarico explains why religion is a false belief, and how science can better understand the world around us. Christianity Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 8. (Last in Series)
Brain science is remarkably close to offering a full naturalistic explanation of individual religious experiences, everything from certain belief to moral indignation to mystical rapture to spiritual transformation. More and more, we can explain Christian belief with the same set of principles that explain supernaturalism generally: childhood credulity, hyperactive agency detection, theory of mind, group hypnotic processes, misattributed transcendence hallucination, viral transmission, and more.



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