1. Dr. Joel McDurmon at the organization American Vision wrote about a University of York study involving magnetism and brain function:

“ This has to be embarrassing . . . if you’re an atheist. A new study performed at the University of York used targeted magnetism to shut down part of the brain. The result: belief in God disappeared among more than 30 percent of participants. That in itself may not seem so embarrassing, but consider that the specific part of the brain they frazzled was the posterior medial frontal cortex—the part associated with detecting and solving problems, i.e., reasoning and logic. In other words, when you shut down the part of the brain most associated with logic and reasoning, greater levels of atheism result.

2 On September 19, 2011, the Discover Magazine website had an article indicating that there were empirical results showing a positive correlation between atheism and high functioning autism and the article declared:

“This is why the empirical results on the correlation between atheism and high functioning autism are important.....some people were angry that I seemed to suggest that atheists were antisocial weirdos. Well, there is some data to back that up


3 Asperger's syndrome (sometimes referred to as "High-Functioning Autism" or "HFA" is an umbrella term used to classify problematic behaviours similar to, but less severe than, those within the lower reaches of the autistic spectrum.

Day wrote concerning atheist PZ Myers' blog audience:

“ It's by no means a scientific test, but it is interesting to note the coincidence that 59 of the virulent atheists over at Dr. PZ Myers place report an average score on the Asperger's Quotient test of 27.8. And this does not include the two individuals who actually have Asperger's but did not report any test results."

As PZ himself said: "I took the test and scored a 24, an “average math contest winner.” You need a 32 to suggest Asperger’s, and a 15 is the average. So there. I don’t have Asperger’s, I’m just cruel and insensitive."


Below is some information that Aspergerstest.com gives concerning interpreting their Asperger's quiz results:

"Basically the range for possible answers is 0 to 50. The information below shows you the different ranges as recorded from others sitting this same AQ quiz over the years.

* 0-11 low result – indicating no tendency at all towards autistic traits.

* 11-21 is the average result that people get (many women average around 15 and men around 17)

* 22-25 shows autistic tendencies slightly above the population average

* 26-31 gives a borderline indication of an autism spectrum disorder. It is also possible to have aspergers or mild autism within this range.

* 32-50 indicates a strong likelihood of Asperger syndrome or autism.

In fact, scores of 32 or above are one of strong indicators of having as ASD.


4 According to the leading science news website Phys.org:

“ Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers.

In two studies led by Assistant Psychology Professor Michael Inzlicht, participants performed a Stroop task - a well-known test of cognitive control - while hooked up to electrodes that measured their brain activity.

Compared to non-believers, the religious participants showed significantly less activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that helps modify behavior by signaling when attention and control are needed, usually as a result of some anxiety-producing event like making a mistake. The stronger their religious zeal and the more they believed in God, the less their ACC fired in response to their own errors, and the fewer errors they made...

Their findings show religious belief has a calming effect on its devotees, which makes them less likely to feel anxious about making errors or facing the unknown.

Sources : http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/08/religiosity-and-personality-how-are.php
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/09/atheism-as-mental-deviance/#.WD4ef7KLTcc
http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/asperger-test-aq-test
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/08/01/im-mostly-normal/#comments
[url=Phys.org]Phys.org[/url]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304160400.htm

5 The prestigious Mayo Clinic reported the following on December 11, 2001:

“ In an article also published in this issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic researchers reviewed published studies, meta-analyses, systematic reviews and subject reviews that examined the association between religious involvement and spirituality and physical health, mental health, health-related quality of life and other health outcomes.
The authors report a majority of the nearly 350 studies of physical health and 850 studies of mental health that have used religious and spiritual variables have found that religious involvement and spirituality are associated with better health outcomes

6 In 1894, the NY Times declared regarding atheism and suicide:

“ Dr. Martin urged that a great cause of suicide was atheism. It was, he said, a remarkable fact that where atheism prevailed most, there suicides were most numerous. In Paris, a recent census showed one suicide to every 2,700 of the population. After the publication of Paine's "Age of Reason" suicides increased. ”

The same NY Times article quotes the Reverend Dr. MacArthur describing suicide in the following manner:

“ It is mean and not manly; it is dastardly and not daring. A man who involves his innocent wife and children in financial disaster and disgrace and takes his life and leaves them to bear the burden he was unwilling to bear, is a coward.
”
The website Adherents.com reported the following in respect to atheism and suicide:

“ Pitzer College sociologist Phil Zuckerman compiled country-
mbridge Companion to Atheism, ed. by Michael Martin, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK (2005).

In examining various indicators of societal health, Zuckerman concludes about suicide:

" Concerning suicide rates, this is the one indicator of societal health in which religious nations fare much better than secular nations. According to the 2003 World Health Organization's report on international male suicides rates (which compared 100 countries), of the top ten nations with the highest male suicide rates, all but one (Sri Lanka) are strongly irreligious nations with high levels of atheism. It is interesting to note, however, that of the top remaining nine nations leading the world in male suicide rates, all are former Soviet/Communist nations, such as Belarus, Ukraine, and Latvia. Of the bottom ten nations with the lowest male suicide rates, all are highly religious nations with statistically insignificant levels of organic atheism"


7 In September 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported:

“ The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us.

"What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians....

This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener," skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in pseudoscience, cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely

Sources : http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62799-7/abstract
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
http://www.adherents.com/misc/religion_suicide.html

KingEbukasBlog:
...

oh booooy!!!
you don blow.

good one bro!

The hell is this

jonbellion:
The hell is this

then take a gentle swerve.

This is very funny... U guys are desperate to cast atheism in some terrible light, it just proves that the growth of atheism in this forum is getting to you people... I mean 7 studies that don't prove anything. U focus on these and ignore actual statistics that matter like d one that says atheists are averagely richer than theists, they are likely to be more intelligent and a higher percentage of them occupy top positions in the country.. In fact, thanks to a particular theist on this forum, I now know that as at 1998 only 7% of leading scientists have any type of belief in God. That was almost twenty years ago...
Of course, we know that atheism doesn't increase your intelligence but u become an atheist because of your higher IQ... The poorest countries have almost 100% theists population and the poorest people are religious people
I appreciate your efforts at showing atheism as a non- promising concept but the prospects of religion are not any better, in fact, they are worse

Lol. Your posts aren't meant for scientists I'll tell you that.

foladara777:
U focus on these and ignore actual statistics that matter like d one that says atheists are averagely richer than theists

The richest countries in the world are Christian-dominant countries , the Christians own 55 percent of the global wealth , 56.4 percent of the millionaires in this world are Christians and more than half of the billionaires in this world are Christians .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_and_religion
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/14/the-religion-of-millionaires-.html

Please stop posting false information .

foladara777:
they are likely to be more intelligent and a higher percentage of them occupy top positions in the country..

Which country? There are just 6 leaders who are atheists in the world today out of 195 countries .

foladara777:
In fact, thanks to a particular theist on this forum, I now know that as at 1998 only 7% of leading scientists have any type of belief in God. That was almost twenty years ago...

I'm not sure where you got that . Here are Christians in Science and Technology who are currently active in the 21st century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology#2001.E2.80.93today_.2821st_century.29

foladara777:
Of course, we know that atheism doesn't increase your intelligence but u become an atheist because of your higher IQ...

The Greatest minds have been theists/deists. Only 10.5 percent of Nobel Prize laureates are atheists , agnostics and freethinkers . The rest (89.5 percent ) are religious people . Christians are 65.4 percent of Nobel laureates . The founders of modern science were Christians and Muslims . The most prestigious schools in the world were founded by Christians .

As at 1996 , only 3 percent of Mensa members were atheists and 49 percent were Christians . Even currently , we can assume that more religious God-believers are in Mensa as it has only added 21,000 members considering that atheism has the lowest retention rate and experiencing a massive decline worldwide .

There is no evidence for your claim or else it would reflect on these facts .

foladara777:

The poorest countries have almost 100% theists population and the poorest people are religious people

Atheist state Cuba live in abject poverty and half of atheist North Koreans are extremely poor . And don't forget there atheists in Religion and God-believers outside religion/irreligious .

Educative thread.

Will serve good for future references. Nice one

Seun, if you dont mind.
You will like this thread.

Lies lies and more lies.

This guy kingebukasblog has a history of quoting from dubious sources. I remember his Hitler thread where he quoted things about Hitler from a dubious book that ran contrary to what Hitlers own biography and the history says.

Kingebukasblog also employs the "kitchen sink" approach where he throws many lies at atheists so that they cant address them all. Just not his verbose 5 points in the op.

Lets Examine Ebukas lies and deceptions-

KingEbukasBlog:

[size=15pt]3[/size] Asperger's syndrome (sometimes referred to as "High-Functioning Autism" or "HFA" is an umbrella term used to classify problematic behaviours similar to, but less severe than, those within the lower reaches of the autistic spectrum.
Day wrote concerning atheist PZ Myers' blog audience:
“ It's by no means a scientific test, but it is interesting to note the coincidence that 59 of the virulent atheists over at Dr. PZ Myers place report an average score on the Asperger's Quotient test of 27.8. And this does not include the two individuals who actually have Asperger's but did not report any test results."
As PZ himself said: "I took the test and scored a 24, an “average math contest winner.” You need a 32 to suggest Asperger’s, and a 15 is the average. So there. I don’t have Asperger’s, I’m just cruel and insensitive."
Below is some information that Aspergerstest.com gives concerning interpreting their Asperger's quiz results:
"Basically the range for possible answers is 0 to 50. The information below shows you the different ranges as recorded from others sitting this same AQ quiz over the years.
* 0-11 low result – indicating no tendency at all towards autistic traits.
* 11-21 is the average result that people get (many women average around 15 and men around 17)
* 22-25 shows autistic tendencies slightly above the population average
* 26-31 gives a borderline indication of an autism spectrum disorder. It is also possible to have aspergers or mild autism within this range.
* 32-50 indicates a strong likelihood of Asperger syndrome or autism.
In fact, scores of 32 or above are one of strong indicators of having as ASD.

Sources : http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/08/religiosity-and-personality-how-are.php

So, in the quote above, kingebukasblog chooses a non-scientific test of aspergers to claim nonsense about atheists. Note that he sources from a unreliable blog that further quotes from an unreliable atheist blog.

Nonsense

KingEbukasBlog:


[size=15pt]2[/size] On September 19, 2011, the Discover Magazine website had an article indicating that there were empirical results showing a positive correlation between atheism and high functioning autism and the article declared:

“This is why the empirical results on the correlation between atheism and high functioning autism are important.....some people were angry that I seemed to suggest that atheists were antisocial weirdos. Well, there is some data to back that up


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/09/atheism-as-mental-deviance/#.WD4ef7KLTcc

Another load of rubbish from kingebukasblog. Quoting a blog version of discover magazine that falsely interpretes data from a study.

1) The study is not about autistic people in general. It is about high functioning autistic people- autistic people who are only mildly autistic. Note the possiblity of finding out that low functioning autistic people might be more religious.

2) The study does not say that atheism makes you more likely to be an autistic person. the study states that high functioning autistic people are more likely to embrace atheism as a way of thinking. After all, atheism is anti-social in America; the most religious country in the west.

KingEbukasBlog:

[size=15pt]4[/size] According to the leading science news website Phys.org:

“ Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers.

In two studies led by Assistant Psychology Professor Michael Inzlicht, participants performed a Stroop task - a well-known test of cognitive control - while hooked up to electrodes that measured their brain activity.

Compared to non-believers, the religious participants showed significantly less activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that helps modify behavior by signaling when attention and control are needed, usually as a result of some anxiety-producing event like making a mistake. The stronger their religious zeal and the more they believed in God, the less their ACC fired in response to their own errors, and the fewer errors they made...

Their findings show religious belief has a calming effect on its devotees, which makes them less likely to feel anxious about making errors or facing the unknown.

Sources :[url=Phys.org]Phys.org[/url]

The link is not working properly.

Yet, another ill-thought out attack on atheism by Ebuka


I want this clown to consider that totalitarians are guided by conviction- they hardly believe that their domination is wrong. Did Hitler think that he was wrong?

foladara777:
This is very funny... U guys are desperate to cast atheism in some terrible light, it just proves that the growth of atheism in this forum is getting to you people... I mean 7 studies that don't prove anything. U focus on these and ignore actual statistics that matter like d one that says atheists are averagely richer than theists, they are likely to be more intelligent and a higher percentage of them occupy top positions in the country.. In fact, thanks to a particular theist on this forum, I now know that as at 1998 only 7% of leading scientists have any type of belief in God. That was almost twenty years ago...
Of course, we know that atheism doesn't increase your intelligence but u become an atheist because of your higher IQ... The poorest countries have almost 100% theists population and the poorest people are religious people
I appreciate your efforts at showing atheism as a non- promising concept but the prospects of religion are not any better, in fact, they are worse

I wonder why people can't THINK WELL before they comment.

I just wonder!

JackBizzle:
Lies lies and more lies.

This guy kingebukasblog has a history of quoting from dubious sources. I remember his Hitler thread where he quoted things about Hitler from a dubious book that ran contrary to what Hitlers own biography and the history says.

Kingebukasblog also employs the "kitchen sink" approach where he throws many lies at atheists so that they cant address them all. Just not his verbose 5 points in the op.

Lets Examine Ebukas lies and deceptions-





So, in the quote above, kingebukasblog chooses a non-scientific test of aspergers to claim nonsense about atheists. Note that he sources from a unreliable blog that further quotes from an unreliable atheist blog.

Nonsense

see a NAHTOL member screaming "lies! "

promisechuks:

see a NAHTOL member screaming "lies! "

??

JackBizzle:

??

///

foladara777:
This is very funny... U guys are desperate to cast atheism in some terrible light, it just proves that the growth of atheism in this forum is getting to you people... I mean 7 studies that don't prove anything. U focus on these and ignore actual statistics that matter like d one that says atheists are averagely richer than theists, they are likely to be more intelligent and a higher percentage of them occupy top positions in the country.. In fact, thanks to a particular theist on this forum, I now know that as at 1998 only 7% of leading scientists have any type of belief in God. That was almost twenty years ago...
Of course, we know that atheism doesn't increase your intelligence but u become an atheist because of your higher IQ... The poorest countries have almost 100% theists population and the poorest people are religious people
I appreciate your efforts at showing atheism as a non- promising concept but the prospects of religion are not any better, in fact, they are worse

but the conclusion of the matter be say...higher iq, richest all na for where the poor man go de,6feet under

KingEbukasBlog:


The richest countries in the world are Christian-dominant countries , the Christians own 55 percent of the global wealth , 56.4 percent of the millionaires in this world are Christians and more than half of the billionaires in this world are Christians .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_and_religion
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/14/the-religion-of-millionaires-.html

Please stop posting false information .



Which country? There are just 6 leaders who are atheists in the world today out of 195 countries .



I'm not sure where you got that . Here are Christians in Science and Technology who are currently active in the 21st century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology#2001.E2.80.93today_.2821st_century.29



The Greatest minds have been theists/deists. Only 10.5 percent of Nobel Prize laureates are atheists , agnostics and freethinkers . The rest (89.5 percent ) are religious people . Christians are 65.4 percent of Nobel laureates . The founders of modern science were Christians and Muslims . The most prestigious schools in the world were founded by Christians .

As at 1996 , only 3 percent of Mensa members were atheists and 49 percent were Christians . Even currently , we can assume that more religious God-believers are in Mensa as it has only added 21,000 members considering that atheism has the lowest retention rate and experiencing a massive decline worldwide .

There is no evidence for your claim or else it would reflect in these facts .


Atheist state Cuba live in abject poverty and half of atheist North Koreans are extremely poor . And don't forget there atheists in Religion and God-believers outside religion/irreligious .

wow

KingEbukasBlog:


The richest countries in the world are Christian-dominant countries , the Christians own 55 percent of the global wealth , 56.4 percent of the millionaires in this world are Christians and more than half of the billionaires in this world are Christians .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_and_religion
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/14/the-religion-of-millionaires-.html

Please stop posting false information .



Which country? There are just 6 leaders who are atheists in the world today out of 195 countries .



I'm not sure where you got that . Here are Christians in Science and Technology who are currently active in the 21st century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology#2001.E2.80.93today_.2821st_century.29



The Greatest minds have been theists/deists. Only 10.5 percent of Nobel Prize laureates are atheists , agnostics and freethinkers . The rest (89.5 percent ) are religious people . Christians are 65.4 percent of Nobel laureates . The founders of modern science were Christians and Muslims . The most prestigious schools in the world were founded by Christians .

As at 1996 , only 3 percent of Mensa members were atheists and 49 percent were Christians . Even currently , we can assume that more religious God-believers are in Mensa as it has only added 21,000 members considering that atheism has the lowest retention rate and experiencing a massive decline worldwide .

There is no evidence for your claim or else it would reflect in these facts .


Atheist state Cuba live in abject poverty and half of atheist North Koreans are extremely poor . And don't forget there atheists in Religion and God-believers outside religion/irreligious .

1. Any demographic especially from the past will be unfavorable to atheists. Why?? Because it was an unpopular concept in the past when knowledge was relatively limited. So saying only 10.5% of Nobel winners are atheists is misleading when the prize was established in 1895.
2. The demographic about rich Christians is generally misleading.. Many people who identify as Christians don't practice. I identify myself as a Christian, only that I don't believe all the great fictional stories. Donald Trump also identifies as a Christian... Many people are agnostic but just identify with Christianity, it saves them from a lot of fuss. Even Bill Gates doesn't identify as an atheist. And even at that, this doesn't explain why Christians still make up the poorest people in the world. Especially the committed Christians... In fact the three most religious continents are the three poorest.
If I say Christians and Muslims are the richest in Nigeria. Am not saying much because almost everyone in Nigeria identifies as either Christian or Muslim
Christians need to stop looking to the past to justify their continued relevance because if we are looking to the past, we will have to recount events like the inquisition, slavery which the Christians justified with the bible and stuff like that

JackBizzle:
Lies lies and more lies.

This guy kingebukasblog has a history of quoting from dubious sources. I remember his Hitler thread where he quoted things about Hitler from a dubious book that ran contrary to what Hitlers own biography and the history says.

Kingebukasblog also employs the "kitchen sink" approach where he throws many lies at atheists so that they cant address them all. Just not his verbose 5 points in the op.

Lets Examine Ebukas lies and deceptions-





So, in the quote above, kingebukasblog chooses a non-scientific test of aspergers to claim nonsense about atheists. Note that he sources from a unreliable blog that further quotes from an unreliable atheist blog.

Nonsense

Then you should quote from a reliable source or is that too difficult for you to do? Is this how you were taught as an atheist to reject the obvious without reason?
You guys won't stop to amaze and amuse me. Anyway, reading what kingebukasblog posted above has given me some other understanding of why you are like this.

foladara777:

1. Any demographic especially from the past will be unfavorable to atheists. Why?? Because it was an unpopular concept in the past when knowledge was relatively limited. So saying only 10.5% of Nobel winners are atheists is misleading when the prize was established in 1895.
2. The demographic about rich Christians is generally misleading.. Many people who identify as Christians don't practice. I identify myself as a Christian, only that I don't believe all the great fictional stories. Donald Trump also identifies as a Christian... Many people are agnostic but just identify with Christianity, it saves them from a lot of fuss. Even Bill Gates doesn't identify as an atheist. And even at that, this doesn't explain why Christians still make up the poorest people in the world. Especially the committed Christians... In fact the three most religious continents are the three poorest.
If I say Christians and Muslims are the richest in Nigeria. Am not saying much because almost everyone in Nigeria identifies as either Christian or Muslim
Christians need to stop looking to the past to justify their continued relevance because if we are looking to the past, we will have to recount events like the inquisition, slavery which the Christians justified with the bible and stuff like that

Trying to make sure the main issues raised here are left without giving it attention. You really tried however is it true that atheists are prone to commit suicide or not? You identified with what you don't believe? Really, this is hypocrisy of the highest order. Now you are making me to believe my earlier assertions that even Seun isn't an atheist rather a christian hatist or perhaps a Muslim bent on defacing Christianity.

KingEbukasBlog:
[size=15pt]1[/size]. Dr. Joel McDurmon at the organization American Vision wrote about a University of York study involving magnetism and brain function:

“ This has to be embarrassing . . . if you’re an atheist. A new study performed at the University of York used targeted magnetism to shut down part of the brain. The result: belief in God disappeared among more than 30 percent of participants. That in itself may not seem so embarrassing, but consider that the specific part of the brain they frazzled was the posterior medial frontal cortex—the part associated with detecting and solving problems, i.e., reasoning and logic. In other words, when you shut down the part of the brain most associated with logic and reasoning, greater levels of atheism result.

[size=15pt]2[/size] On September 19, 2011, the Discover Magazine website had an article indicating that there were empirical results showing a positive correlation between atheism and high functioning autism and the article declared:

“This is why the empirical results on the correlation between atheism and high functioning autism are important.....some people were angry that I seemed to suggest that atheists were antisocial weirdos. Well, there is some data to back that up


[size=15pt]3[/size] Asperger's syndrome (sometimes referred to as "High-Functioning Autism" or "HFA" is an umbrella term used to classify problematic behaviours similar to, but less severe than, those within the lower reaches of the autistic spectrum.

Day wrote concerning atheist PZ Myers' blog audience:

“ It's by no means a scientific test, but it is interesting to note the coincidence that 59 of the virulent atheists over at Dr. PZ Myers place report an average score on the Asperger's Quotient test of 27.8. And this does not include the two individuals who actually have Asperger's but did not report any test results."

As PZ himself said: "I took the test and scored a 24, an “average math contest winner.” You need a 32 to suggest Asperger’s, and a 15 is the average. So there. I don’t have Asperger’s, I’m just cruel and insensitive."


Below is some information that Aspergerstest.com gives concerning interpreting their Asperger's quiz results:

"Basically the range for possible answers is 0 to 50. The information below shows you the different ranges as recorded from others sitting this same AQ quiz over the years.

* 0-11 low result – indicating no tendency at all towards autistic traits.

* 11-21 is the average result that people get (many women average around 15 and men around 17)

* 22-25 shows autistic tendencies slightly above the population average

* 26-31 gives a borderline indication of an autism spectrum disorder. It is also possible to have aspergers or mild autism within this range.

* 32-50 indicates a strong likelihood of Asperger syndrome or autism.

In fact, scores of 32 or above are one of strong indicators of having as ASD.


[size=15pt]4[/size] According to the leading science news website Phys.org:

“ Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers.

In two studies led by Assistant Psychology Professor Michael Inzlicht, participants performed a Stroop task - a well-known test of cognitive control - while hooked up to electrodes that measured their brain activity.

Compared to non-believers, the religious participants showed significantly less activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that helps modify behavior by signaling when attention and control are needed, usually as a result of some anxiety-producing event like making a mistake. The stronger their religious zeal and the more they believed in God, the less their ACC fired in response to their own errors, and the fewer errors they made...

Their findings show religious belief has a calming effect on its devotees, which makes them less likely to feel anxious about making errors or facing the unknown.

Sources : http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/08/religiosity-and-personality-how-are.php
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/09/atheism-as-mental-deviance/#.WD4ef7KLTcc
http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/asperger-test-aq-test
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/08/01/im-mostly-normal/#comments
[url=Phys.org]Phys.org[/url]

I shall find time to appropriately respond, to this compilation, that is forced on you by your morbid fears of atheism.

Am now glad and excited, that atheism and atheistic post are gradually dominating this section.

We are gradually making your puerile proselytizing a rare post here.

Most of you theists here no longer have time to study your fictional story book again.

You folks now devote your time to surfing religious site, pseudoscientific sites, Avenger of God and Jesus sites etc.

That's a step in the direction that will gradually, help you folks find out how idiotic and useless God idea is.

rhektor:




Then you should quote from a reliable source or is that too difficult for you to do? Is this how you were taught as an atheist to reject the obvious without reason?
You guys won't stop to amaze and amuse me. Anyway, reading what kingebukasblog posted above has given me some other understanding of why you are like this.

I pointed out that his sources are unreliable and unscientific- lacking proper evidence.

Yet you are here talking nonsense that I should spoonfeed Kingebuka with proper evidence.

Go and sleep, abeg

JackBizzle:



I pointed out that his sources are unreliable and unscientific- lacking proper evidence.

Yet you are here talking nonsense that I should spoonfeed Kingebuka with proper evidence.

Go and sleep, abeg

New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Mayo Clinic , Discover Magazine , University of York , Phys.org , PZ Myers' blog are not credible ? I wonder why people pay attention to the nonsense you spew .

KingEbukasBlog:


New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Mayo Clinic , Discover Magazine , University of York , Phys.org , PZ Myers' blog are not credible ? I wonder why people pay attention to the nonsense you spew .

I was specifically talking about the link from an unreliable blog that you posted. This particular link;

KingEbukasBlog:

Sources : http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/08/religiosity-and-personality-how-are.php

KingEbukasBlog:


New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Mayo Clinic , Discover Magazine , University of York , Phys.org , PZ Myers' blog are not credible ? I wonder why people pay attention to the nonsense you spew .

****

Blog site, newspapers and other non-journals publications can give you a summary of research work, but they usually don't give you what helps you to understand the details of the work - research design and mythology.

Except you find the very journal that published the work.

You're particularly limited, since you're ignorant of this, and you lack the requisite expertise to read, understand and make valid deductions from scientific works.

I have also observed that you and your likes on NL, don't know the difference between the works of mainstream scientists and pseudoscientists.

****

JackBizzle:



I pointed out that his sources are unreliable and unscientific- lacking proper evidence.

Yet you are here talking nonsense that I should spoonfeed Kingebuka with proper evidence.

Go and sleep, abeg

Do you have any proof or evidence against that? No but you can say someone is talking nonsense.

JackBizzle:



I was specifically talking about the link from an unreliable blog that you posted. This particular link;

Check this one out . University of Toronto made the research .
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304160400.htm

The paper, appearing online in Psychological Science, was co-authored by Dr. Ian McGregor at York University, and by Jacob Hirsh and Kyle Nash, doctoral candidates at the University of Toronto and York University, respectively.

KingEbukasBlog:


New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Mayo Clinic , Discover Magazine , University of York , Phys.org , PZ Myers' blog are not credible ? I wonder why people pay attention to the nonsense you spew .

PZ Meyers is not credible.

You did not directly link the new york times. Your posts links to adherents.com

JackBizzle:


PZ Meyers is not credible.

You did not directly link the new york times. Your posts links to adherents.com

PZ Meyers is a popular critic of creationism and intelligent design . And his blog is top-ranked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZ_Myers