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Brain 2008 131(7):1953-1959; doi:10.1093/brain/awn128
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God, theologian and humble neurologist

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When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honour. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

(New Revised Standard Version, Psalm 8: 3–9)

On November 23, 1654, Pascal experienced God. His servant later found the mathematician's account of his ‘night of fire’ on some parchment sewn into the lining of a discarded doublet:

From about half-past ten in the evening until half-past twelve. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Imago dei: God's law and the law of the mind

Homo sapiens and the caves of Lascaux

‘Neurotheology’: bad neurology and bad theology

The sacred disease

My neurons made me believe in God

A conclusion: homo divinis and the humble neurologist

Alasdair Coles

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge


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