Sam Harris
From samharris.org
We are preparing to run another fMRI study of belief and disbelief, and we need volunteers to help us refine our experimental stimuli. This promises to be the first study of religious faith at the level of the brain. By responding to the four surveys I have posted online, you can make an enormous contribution to this work.
You’ll find links to these surveys on my home page.
Please answer as many of the surveys as you can. If you only have time to answer one, please choose at random (otherwise, we will have many more responses to the first than to the others).
Feel free to post this message to your blog or to forward the relevant links to your friends. I especially need Christians to respond, as one of the goals of these surveys is to design stimuli that a majority of Christians will find doctrinally sound.
I will, of course, pass along the results of this work the moment I have something to report.
Many thanks for your help.
All the best,
Sam
www.samharris.org
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May 7, 2008 at 1:23 am
Marianne
I answered one survey. But then, I decided it seemed like you had already made up your mind. So the survey is rather useless.
My impression was that you were trying to prove that Christians were stupid. I am a biochemist, but I am also a Christian. We are on different wavelengths, for sure.
marianne
MS, MT ( ASCP)
http://heavenawaits.wordpress.com/
May 7, 2008 at 6:13 am
Simon van Rysewyk
Hi Marianne,
Thanks for the reply. Actually, I am in no way connected to this survey, and I am not part in any way of Sam’s research project to study ‘religious faith at the level of the brain’. However, I believe his work is both noteworthy and significant, so I decided to post ‘Research Volunteers Needed’ on my blog. So, ‘you were trying to prove that Christians were stupid’ is a criticism you should direct to Sam Harris himself.
I think you are quite right to mention being on ‘different wavelengths’. I encourage you to contact Sam with your concerns about the survey. He is very open-minded. Thanks, again.
Take care!
Simon
May 7, 2008 at 10:21 am
Marianne
My apologies. I thought you were the author of the book.
marianne