How God Is Generated By The Human Mind

How God Is Generated By The Human Mind.

J. Anderson Thomson gave his lecture "Why we believe in gods" at the Washington & Lee Law School (W&L Law) in Lexington, VA on October 15, 2008.

J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D. (Andy) is a part-time staff psychiatrist. He received his B.A. from Duke University (1970), his M.D. from the University of Virginia (1974) and did his adult psychiatry training at U.Va. (1974-77). His private practice is oriented toward individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy, forensic psychiatry, and medication consultation. He is the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at U.Va., which involves interdisciplinary intervention and research in large group ethnic and political conflict. He has publications on narcissistic personality disorder, PTSD, and the psychology of racism, and psychobiographical essays on Robert E. Lee and Lee Harvey Oswald. His current research interest is in the area of evolutionary psychology. (Source: University of Virginia)

Watch the full lecture at www.richarddawkins.net/article,3373,Why- we-believe-in-gods,J-Anderson-Thomson

Credit: http://www.richarddawkins.net/

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[blaziermissy]

One of the BEST lectures I've heard in a long time. It's wonderful to know that this is being taught in higher education, and should be taught earlier.

[GalacticHeroEtna]

Religion is like a security blanket for people. Its something to turn to when when things get tough.

And blankets are made by man ;D

[cameltoe4565]

The God I know never interferes and at most loves humans passively from a distance, so He might as well not exist. First step to fulfillment is realizing we're here on our own. All we have is each other. Your God wants you to "abandon" him, much like a father who wants to see his son grow up. Put away your Bible and only read it when you really have to, for it is medicine for the spirit, and the spirit, like the body, should not be medicated every day.

[crissxxx]

It can be a possibility that if there is a God it may turn out to be like nothing what religions around the world tell so does it make it okay?Not really since most people lived their lives under religion's heel and holding back most of their lives.

[ellenjanuary]

Scientific theory is not perfect, at best it is incomplete. Just like the mortal understanding of god. Ain't nothing wrong with god. Religion, however; can go take a flying leap. ;)

[bookkeeper57]

@Trickycandyfloss The bible is not well understood by those who respect it; and not at all by someone who never read it. Nowhere does it say that the earth is 6000 years old. It does say "a thousand years is as one day in God's sight, and one day as a thousand years". How many days in 6000 earth years? Multiply it by 1000. How old is the earth now? if God put this creation in place, nothing in His 'revealed word' contradicts observable science.

If God is perfect, He does not lie.

[bookkeeper57]

@Trickycandyfloss Tell me something I don't know about variation in the pigment of your skin, depending on where you live, moron, that I don't know. And if you're not just a flamethrower,  give us PROOF that God does not exist. Hint: evolution is not an argument.

[bookkeeper57]

@Trickycandyfloss We are the best outcome for a species on this planet, fool; and the only species so evolved that we can destroy it in a matter of days. Who to "blame" that on? A God who made us creatures of free will, not instinct. Evolution happens, yes. Whose original idea was it? Just a random occurrence? Don't be so stupid in an open forum that you infer white people are more "evolved" than black people or that others don't have the same basic 8th grade education you have.

[manz900]

@TheFlanker35 MY body is a primate body but currently I am only borrowing this body to experence physical existence with the soul group I agreed to incarnated with.

[manz900]

@TheFlanker35 Darwinism is a scientific theory accepted as fact. Its amazing that in the age of technology people still believe a man who traveled around in a primative ship. Why is it when people in support of your favorite theory show human beings and comapred them to other primates there examples are always the most ape looking people or african americans. Why not show brad pit or harrisen Ford and compare them to primates. I have accepted that yes my body is a primate body.

[TheFlanker35]

@manz900,

Darwinism is a scientific theory. Your garbage isn't. The possible existence of alien races has nothing to do with your crap.