Retraction of the Ammendment

Having thought about it I have realised that the "god-spot" is not incompatible with the "god-net". I actually take issue with the study that was done with the nuns (I'm reffering to the live science article in my last post) but even if we assume that it is correct, what I said still stands, and may even be more probable.

According to this study, the whole brain is responsible for the religious experience. However, the God-spot does in fact produce the results that were in my original post. A single spot can easily affect how the system works, which provides more than reasonable compatibility between the 2 findings.

The reason that this makes what I said is more probable is part of the basic workings of evolution: adaption of existing resources to do something new. It is more likely that these parts of the brain would evolve to contribute to a single event than that a whole separate part of the brain would be created.

Evolution deniers (and that IS what they are) always point at "irreducible complexity" as evidence against evolution. How ironic that the very mechanism which they refuse to accept is responsible for the religious fervour that drives virtually all of them.