Sam Harris is up to his naughty, naughty self again.
He is planning an fMRI run that will concentrate specifically on religious faith, which Harris thinks he now knows how to plumb more deeply. He also plans to set up two different subject groups - the faithful and non-believers. “That way,” among other things, he says, “you can ask, ‘Do believers believe that Jesus was born of a virgin the same way that nonbelievers believe that Chevrolet makes cars and trucks?’”
This will be something to follow. Something tells me that he will find that faith is simply another function of belief in the brain and is not special in any way. Oh wait, my brain told me that.
Whatever you find, go where the science and the data leads you!
