Category Archives: Cognitive Science and Christianity

From AwayPoint on Youtube: How Beliefs Change

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Valerie Tarico

With all of the ways that beliefs resist change, one might think that awakening to complicated realities is hopeless. But there is another half of the equation. As much as we tend to be wary of threats against our world … Continue reading →

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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 8 of 8

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Valerie Tarico

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“I had no need of that hypothesis.” Over the course of the summer I wrote a series of articles about brain science and Christianity, and I promised a final installment that never came.  This is it. The series asked and–within … Continue reading →

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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 7 of 8

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Valerie Tarico

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Change Happens The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.   –Antisthenes My parents, as I’ve said before, were three for six in terms of producing believing children.  All of us accepted … Continue reading →

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Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 5

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Valerie Tarico

How Viral Ideas Hook Us Did you know that Temple Baptist Church was built on land that sold for 57 cents, the amount saved by a little girl that had been turned away from their Sunday school?   Did you hear … Continue reading →

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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 4

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Valerie Tarico

The Born-Again Experience “. . . I prayed harder and just then I felt like everything I was saying was being sucked into a vacuum.  When I stood up, I felt like thin air; I had to brace myself.  I … Continue reading →

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