Not long ago we learned the “scientific” reasons we like music. Today, for Valentine’s Day, we discover why we love:
Men and women can now thank a dozen brain regions for their romantic fervor. Researchers have revealed the fonts of desire by comparing functional MRI studies of people who indicated they were experiencing passionate love, maternal love or unconditional love.
If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not the “neurotransmitters and other chemicals in the brain and blood that prompt greater euphoric sensations,” I am nothing.
Or perhaps on this reductionist view I am nothing regardless. Scientism speaks. What remains?
Happy Valentine’s Day to all who know better than this, and even to those who do not.
February 15th, 2011 | 1:00 pm | #1
“Or perhaps on this reductionist view I am nothing regardless. Scientism speaks. What remains?”
Atheistic materialism?
February 17th, 2011 | 4:29 pm | #2
“Happy Valentine’s Day to all who know better than this, and even to those who do not.”
Thanks Tom! By the grace of God I do know better. And a Happy Belated Valentine’s Day to you too!
Links
Blogs
Find Us
Contact