{"id":8224,"date":"2009-09-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/11\/we-are-born-to-believe-in-god\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T12:00:00","slug":"we-are-born-to-believe-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/11\/we-are-born-to-believe-in-god\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Born To Believe in God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article6823229.ece?print=yes&#038;randnum=1252440426931\">www.timesonline.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK, September 6, 2009: Humans may have been hardwired by evolutionary forces to believe in God, some scientists are suggesting. Far from being the result of poor education and childhood &#8220;indoctrination,&#8221; religious tendencies may have provided an evolutionary benefit by increasing the tendency of people to work together well, thus enhancing their ability to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Hood, a professor of developmental psychology who sees organised religion as just part of a spectrum of supernatural beliefs, will present his findings at the British Science Association&#8217;s annual meeting this week. <\/p>\n<p>Evidence has linked religious feelings and experience to particular regions of the brain. Andrew Newberg, professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, has used brain-imaging techniques to show that feelings of spirituality are invoked by activity in &#8220;belief networks&#8221; operating across the brain. &#8220;The temporal lobe interacts with many other parts of the brain to provide the full range of religious and spiritual experiences,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: Though many scientists affirm (or obliquely suggest) that spiritual experiences are a simple result of brain processing, other researchers affirm that, during spiritual experiences, the brain is just perceiving a reality that is normally unnoticed. A proponent of this is the eloquent Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, interviewed for the July\/August\/Septemeber issue of Hinduism Today. You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/modules\/smartsection\/item.php?itemid=3090\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.timesonline.co.uk UK, September 6, 2009: Humans may have been hardwired by evolutionary forces to believe in God, some scientists,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}