Brain Differences Found Between in Believers in God and Non-Believers

Nagy Vilmos

I'm going for the what bollocks option. I am a practising Christian AND a danged good code monkey.

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Matthew Faithfull

AspDotNetDev wrote:

I suspect believers make terrible programmers.

and I suspect science would prove you wrong. :)

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Jorgen Andersson

Practician does not necessarily equal believer. I also didn't find any references to whether this would affect coding in the article.

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Lost User

As our Hungarian friend so succinctly put it : "what bollocks". Tests such as these are far from scientific, and have as much relationship to truth and reality as a politician's promises.

Use the best guess

Nagy Vilmos

I disagree. To be a practising Christian one needs to believe in God.

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Jorgen Andersson

I guess it depends on how you define practicing. I remember a guy at school that was "practicing" because it was expected by his family, he didn't actually believe. How does that count?

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Rhys Gravell

Really? I'd have thought that to be an actual Christian you would need that belief, but if you are still just practising being one... ;P

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Pete OHanlon

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

I remember a guy at school that was "practicing" because it was expected by his family, he didn't actually believe

Then he wasn't really practicing was he? He was just going through the motions.

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Bassam Abdul Baki

So come on, come on, do the loco-motion with me. Sorry! Not sure what got over me there for a second. :sigh:

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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson

History seems to disagree, in fact it shows you dont even need to one to be pope!

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Jorgen Andersson

Maybe I have the wrong understanding of the word practicing then. Just curious what was wrong with my message, what in that message was abusive?

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ZurdoDev

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I suspect believers make terrible programmers.

How so? The article states, "They're much less anxious and feel less stressed when they have made an error." I see that as a good thing. In my experience, those who get all stressed out perform worse than those who remain calm because they can't think straight. Based on that evidence I would have to say that believers would make better programmers.

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Lost User

It doesn't say which God.

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Pete OHanlon

Maybe it was the same person who voted mine abusive as well.

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Jorgen Andersson

Doubt it, mine was gone in one click. And I don't think it's supposed to be THAT easy to remove a message. So I guess there are more people around that has a bit more power than they are supposed to. Should I ask in sugs 'n' bugs about it you think?

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SalCon

Completely agree. I practise my religion because of huge peer\societal expectations (read pressure) NOT because I am a believer ( hold the Belieber jokes already).

Lost User

ChrisElston wrote:

which God

Higgs Boson, the god of the scientific community.

Pete OHanlon

I doubt it's worth it.

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Pete OHanlon

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

Maybe I have the wrong understanding of the word practicing then

Anyway, back to the point. I always took practicing Christians to mean the ones that actually believed. It's the whole concept of choice and responsibility. If you are just going because your parents go, and you have no actual belief in it yourself, then you are letting others make the choice for you. Hence, you aren't practicing - you're merely pleasing others.

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ZurdoDev

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It doesn't say which God.

That is an interesting point. Studies have shown that belief in any god will cause behavioral changes. In this case it does not matter. Believing in something higher than oneself that dictates a level of standards and morals has an impact on one's anxiety levels, among other things. To believe is better than to not believe, in my opinion. Of course there are radicals that don't quite follow this but they are the exception.

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