Sorry for all the Slate articles, but I was dorking around at work today and found this stuff and I'm all a twitter.
God Is in the Dendrites:
Can "neurotheology" bridge the gap between religion and science?
By George Johnson
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For those not prone to seizures, Michael Persinger of Laurentian University promises to induce similar symptoms by scrambling the brain with magnetic fields. After donning a helmet wired with electromagnets, some subjects reported experiences they described as mystical, or at least misty. When Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, put on the hood, it only made him a little dizzy. Persinger was quick to note that Dawkins had scored way below average on a psychological questionnaire measuring temporal lobe sensitivity—hints of a neurobiological correlate for atheism.
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