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Is measured brain activitiy during religious experience bridging the gap between science and the transcendant: <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>“When brain research meets the Bible.” <BR>That’s the subtext to The New York Times columnist David Brooks‘ recent piece on religion and science, “The Neural Buddhists.” He’s taking up recent developments in neuroscience, and coming to the conclusion that present and future debates between religion and science will not be over the existence of God, but over whether or not organized religion contributes to or harms the brain’s intuitions toward transcendence and spirituality. <BR> <BR>Thus, the title: science leading to a “neural Buddhism.” <BR> <BR>...<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/civil-religion/general/2008/05/when-brain-research-meets-the-bible/" target=_top>http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/civil-religion/ge neral/2008/05/when-brain-research-meets-the-bible/</a> <BR> <BR>If brain activity can be measured when one is interacting with what is trancendant, have we not begun to measure at least the effect of the transcendant on man? Is that not science measuring religion???
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