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Originally posted by danielf
When it comes to religious experiences, how do you objectively establish that someone has a 'religious experience'.
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you could use that as an arguament to question the validity of any 'religious experience'
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Then there is the issue of cause and effect, which is quite thorny.
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It is a thorny one if you are prepared to accept that we can ask God to manifest his presence on the whim of a medic/scientist, at a given time and place. If you feel that the above is either ludicrous or beneath God, then you must accept that the phenomenon is (at least sometimes) man made and not divinely inspired.
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I don't think enough is known about emotion (let alone religion) with respect to the brain's workings, to draw any meaningful conclusions from these experiments.
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Why? If you have stimulated in a subject a feeling/sensation that is also commonly associated with reported 'religious experiences', we can draw some sort of conclusions at least.
and now I'm off to bed as well, goodnight all
