[lit-ideas] Re: The Essence of This

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:17:25 EDT

Oh!  I just remembered the book I was going to tell you about -- "Why  God 
Won't Go Away:  Brain Science & the Biology of Belief" by Andre  Newberg, MD 
and 
Eugene D'Aquili, MD, PhD.  Doesn't exactly address genetics  but I think 
you're headed more toward the physiology of religion, which it does  address.  
 
Julie Krueger
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And with good reason.  (And some that should have, IMHO,   didn't.)  I 
personally believe Ecclesiastes made it so there would  be  something helpful 
for 
secularists to read in primarily sacred  texts.  And  because it's universal 
in its 
message.

Julie  Krueger



With good reason depending on who was doing the  censoring.  I've never taken 
much interest in the Bible, but one day I'll  read Ecclesiastes.   In the 
meantime, I re-read that story on  information not being able to be destroyed.  
While Science News refers to  concrete things such as books, they don't define 
"information".  Negatively  and positively charged particles inside and 
outside black holes.  Yeah,  so?  Too other-dimensional for me.  

In the meantime, I can't  find the article on religion being a genetic thing. 
 Don't even remember  where I saw it.  I suspect the predisposition to 
religion is like the  predisposition to language or the ability to create art 
and 
literature, but I  will reserve judgment until I find the God-forsaken thing.  
Genetics may  answer the question as to why we seem to need God more than God 
needs us.   I'll dig up Ecclesiastes this weekend and read a verse or two.


Andy  Amago





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