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The most fascinating talk at the Templeton-Cambridge event was given by Chris Frith, a neurologist at University College in London, author of Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World A few ideas that came from this talk: Why Schizophrenics Can Tickle Themselves Studies show that before we move our arm, we…

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:

In this morning’s Templeton classes, Dame Gillian Beer, a Darwin scholar and emeritus Cambridge professor, described the scandal caused by the publication of the Origin of Species. Many immediately saw this as a threat to religion, especially the notion that we’re all part of a grand family, the monkeys cousins of man. Interestingly, though, Charles…

: Until the recent discovery of Neanderthal DNA, I hadn’t realized that this species actually existed side by side with homo sapiens. (I had naively assumed homo sapiens descended from primitive Neanderthals). There’s something I always wondered and, while attending the Templeton science and religion conference, I had the opportunity to quiz a real espert,…

For the next few days my posts will be focused on science and religion, as I’m lucky enough to be spending the next five days in Cambridge, England at a conference put on by the Templeton Foundation on evolution and the brain. The morning’s speaker is an evolutionary paleontologist named Simon Conway Morris, who expressed…

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