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In Saturday’s session, Alasdair Coles, a neurologist at Cambridge, surveyed the scientific research on brain functioning and religion. Most interesting were the studies shwoing that Alzheimers patients become more artistically creative as their disease progresses. Bruce Miller, the researcher who performed this study, theorized that the left hemisphere is the “bully part of the brain”…

Harvey Whitehouse, an anthropologist from Oxford, is leading a massive cross-university effort called “Explaining Religion” looking at the re-occurring tendencies in religious groups throughout the world. (More on the project here) Anthropologists kept seeing that religious ritual tended to be either low frequency/ high intensity (example: painful initiation ritual) or high frequency, low intensity rituals…

Dame Gillian Beer, a Darwin scholar who spoke this morning at theTempleton-Cambridge Science & Religion conference, noted that Darwin had a certian “scorn” for those who were horrified by extinction.”He believes extinction is just what happens with living species,” he said. “It sounds like a gloomy message but he doesn’t feel it as such. He…

A For Effort on this video from the Catholic Church:
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