2 chapters across the catalog
Dr. Andrew Newberg defines "neurotheology" as the study of how the human brain and mind relate to religious and spiritual experiences. He argues that the brain has a primary function of survival but also a "remarkable ability to transcend itself" through belief. The hosts compare the brain to DNA and belief to RNA, suggesting that faith acts as an operating system that rewrites human behavior.
Implicit bias testing is examined as a method used by scientists to quantify racial prejudice by measuring reaction times to images of different races. A delay of a few milliseconds in distinguishing faces is often classified as a social stereotype or "affective lexical priming" failure. The hosts question the validity of these tests, suggesting they are designed to find racism in everyone regardless of their actual beliefs or actions.
