Your Brain on Religion

MSNBC has an interesting article on a new research center at U. Penn. It can be found at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16842848/. The introductory paragraphs follow.

Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we cannot prove, whether it’s the afterlife or UFOs?

The new Center for Spirituality and the Mind at the University of Pennsylvania is using brain imaging technology to examine such questions, and to investigate how spiritual and secular beliefs affect our health and behavior.

If you follow the article's U. Penn link and then click the "Resources" link, you will find several articles available in PDF format. Tom, perhaps your MD son would find them worth reading, and then again, maybe not.