{"id":343,"date":"2009-02-06T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2009-02-06T07:42:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:42:21","slug":"343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/343\/","title":{"rendered":"The science of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two articles I should look at more closely, both in the <cite>New Scientist<\/cite>. (I forget where I came across them, sorry.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20126941.700-born-believers-how-your-brain-creates-god.html\">Born believers: How your brain creates God<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20126943.600-the-credit-crunch-could-be-a-boon-for-irrational-belief.html\">The credit crunch could be a boon for irrational belief<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second title is a game attempt to make something arcane and abstract timely and relevant. The first title is better. Imagine if, instead, it said, &#8220;Born seers: how your brain creates a visual representation of the universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Updated; I forgot to give this a title.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two articles I should look at more closely, both in the New Scientist. (I forget where I came across them, sorry.) Born believers: How your brain creates God The credit crunch could be a boon for irrational belief The second title is a game attempt to make something arcane and abstract timely and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saRqpr-343","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}