Metaphysical thought processes are more deeply
wired than hitherto suspected WHILE MILITANT ATHEISTS like Richard Dawkins
may be convinced God doesn’t exist, God, if he is
around, may be amused to find that atheists
might not exist. Cognitive scientists are becoming increasingly
aware that a metaphysical outlook may be so
deeply ingrained in human thought processes
that it cannot be expunged. While this idea may seem outlandish—after all, it
seems easy to decide not to believe in God—
evidence from several disciplines indicates that
what you actually believe is not a decision you
make for yourself. Your fundamental beliefs are
decided by much deeper levels of consciousness, and some may well be more or less set in stone. This line of thought has led to some scientists
claiming that “atheism is psychologically
impossible because of the way humans think,”
says Graham Lawton, an avowed atheist himself,
writing in the New Scientist. “They point to
studies showing, for example, that even people who claim to be committed atheists tacitly hold
religious beliefs, such as the existence of an
immortal soul.” This shouldn’t come as a surprise, since we are
born believers, not atheists, scientists say.
Humans are pattern-seekers from birth, with a
belief in karma, or cosmic justice, as our default
setting. “A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us
to faith,” writes Pascal Boyer in Nature, the science journal, adding that people “are only
aware of some of their religious ideas”. INTERNAL MONOLOGUES Scientists have discovered that “invisible friends”
are not something reserved for children. We all
have them, and encounter them often in the form
of interior monologues. As we experience
events, we mentally tell a non-present listener
about it. The imagined listener may be a spouse, it may be
Jesus or Buddha or it may be no one in particular.
It’s just how the way the human mind processes
facts. The identity, tangibility or existence of the
listener is irrelevant. “From childhood, people form enduring, stable
and important relationships with fictional
characters, imaginary friends, deceased relatives,
unseen heroes and fantasized mates,” says Boyer
of Washington University, himself an atheist. This
feeling of having an awareness of another consciousness might simply be the way our
natural operating system works. PUZZLING RESPONSES These findings may go a long way to explaining
a series of puzzles in recent social science studies.
In the United States, 38% of people who
identified themselves as atheist or agnostic went
on to claim to believe in a God or a Higher Power
(Pew Forum, “Religion and the Unaffiliated”, 2012). While the UK is often defined as an irreligious
place, a recent survey by Theos, a think tank,
found that very few people—only 13 per cent of
adults—agreed with the statement “humans are
purely material beings with no spiritual element”.
For the vast majority of us, unseen realities are very present. When researchers asked people whether they
had taken part in esoteric spiritual practices such
as having a Reiki session or having their aura
read, the results were almost identical (between
38 and 40%) for people who defined themselves
as religious, non-religious or atheist. The implication is that we all believe in a not
dissimilar range of tangible and intangible
realities. Whether a particular brand of higher
consciousness is included in that list (“I believe in
God”, “I believe in some sort of higher force”, “I
believe in no higher consciousness”) is little more than a detail.

We are nothing but pencil in the hand of the creator ....
If we know what run in the mind of a cockroach, we would be amazed on how stupid it is !!

There is God !!

This default setting of an innate belief in the one God is called FITRA in the Quran.The prophet said every child is born a monotheist but that its parent and environment changes it.

Its obvios dat our modern day scientist have run out of discoveries.

Or maybe d are lukin for a way to swallow d bitter truth dat God realy exists.

Fars as i am concerned, there is no believer.. Deep down the subconcious, you hold on to somethng. Sooner or later, you'r gonna believe. Its just might be too late..