Letters to the Editor
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@ droogoy
"Have you read either of their books? Both? I doubt it. Both are supremely well composed, argued, and not "shallow" at all. Though I suspect a shallow mind would not be able to tackle them."
Excerpts of, yes. All of, no. Intend to, yes. From what I've read of them, I find them angrily contemptuous of what they have no interest in understanding. And congrats, you might actually be the first person ever to call me shallow.
"Religion was deemed a "mind virus" and "disease" long before Dawkins or Hitchens came around."
Having been "deemed" such doesn't make it so. Anybody can deem anything they want. Not that long ago, it was deemed by mainstream genetics that introns were functionless, "junk" DNA. Now we don't know that anymore. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/expl_05_introns.html
"Showing how biochemistry is at the root of all life. And how religion evolved from a memetic [sic] basis."
Why do you assume that those things are incompatible with my faith? They're not.
"If that doesn't grab you, then read Michael Persinger's The Neuropsychological Basis of God Beliefs."
Looking forward to it.
"Showing via experimental data how religion is grounded in micro-seizures in the brain's temporal lobes."
Again with the assumptions about what my faith AND my rational understanding will and won't embrace.