(Un)Wired For God

When some (quote)scientists(unquote) announced the possibility of a brain hard-wired for god (lowercase) beliefs I scoffed; and most scientists around the world scoffed too. Because that was a glaring example of how religious training survive even the most exhausting scientific training. The biases introduced in our mind at early age usually stay with us until death brings closure to the non-sense. And the religious biases are a great part of such baggage carried along our lives.
Actually the Billion Dollars question is about what Human Consciousness nature is. Which haven't been answered by the neuroscience, not knowing how to formulate the proper questions to guide our search. For those of us who have found some hints, the issue of god becomes one of how religions took advantage of our ignorance of how Consciousness really works and used that ignorance to instill the beliefs in supernatural entities.
The first attempts to escape the religious biases were prompted by the rationalism of the age of enlightenment, but it led us into further biases which we have even lesser chances to avoid, given our lack of knowledge required to recognize these new biases. In short, only when we will to accept the possibility that our questions were all wrong, we might start getting some right questions. But I still wait for the thinker able to escape the dichotomy god / no-gods and begin to address the what, why, and how of Consciousness nature. Then we should begin to understand the fact that our physical biology evolved to support this Consciousness which has nothing to do with god or gods.
Sharon Begley found one way to start the right path towards this understanding. (article)

E. M. Murren
Namaste dearest Frank,
I noticed in their social dysfunctions: homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, unemployment, and poverty; we have three which involve sex. Since when is abortion a social dysfunction? A sexually transmitted disease is a medical condition which generally can be treated medicinally. AIDS of course is still incurable, but it's getting nearer every day.
As for teen pregnancy… give me a break! I am so tired of the measure of social dysfunction having to do with our sexual behavior… what about wife beating? Violence is more of a social dysfunction than sex. The same stereotypes she is trying to dispel even infiltrate her values. There is no such thing as objectivity in science, no matter how much they try to pretend. Sigh.
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E. M. Murren
Part two :-)
I think the predisposition toward religion has more to do with a need for habituation and socially collective behaviors than it does with any hard wiring toward knowledge of any sort. As the world moves away from religiosity, people have become more isolated. I'm not saying that we should fall under the spell of a universality which denies membership to anyone who stands out like the Catholic church, but the rise in spiritual collectives in America, for example, betrays a search for the Collective Consciousness which is innate. We need socialization and no one has replaced religion since the hippies sold out in the 70s. LOL
Okay... I'm done.:-)...
Love to you
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Dear Elaine, I was going to jump answering right away, but my dog needed her pill and supplement, deer were waiting for their breakfast, and I had to take my pills. What gave a break to ponder what you said.
Indeed biases are as pesky as viruses and many times go dormant to revive once the trigger is pulled. Sure, Sharon has a lot of biases, as all of us do. We cannot do much about our biases until we realize we have them and examine the support system they have built in our consciousness. But even that cannot insure that we are done with them. I like how you think because you are unafraid of looking your own biases in the face. That would be a great example to imitate and I wish more people would just do that. But we need to work on them not just look.