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Critical thinking suppressed in brains of people who believe in religion
The opposition between religious beliefs and scientific evidence can be explained by difference in brain structures and cognitive activity. Scientists have found critical thinking is suppressed in the brains of people who believe in the supernatural. Published in PLOS One, their study examines how the parts of the brain responsible for empathy and analytical reasoning are linked to faith and spiritual thinking.
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Really??? You don't say! People who are told that there are super powerful invisible beings in the sky and they believe it are not critical thinkers? I would have never guessed.
And then I can't get grants to answer some actual non-obvious scientific questions. Next time I'm going to seek funding to show that sex causes babies.
Well that little insight has been obvious to me for years!