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Author Topic:   Right-handed? You may be a creationist!
JonF
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Message 1 of 5 (186374)
02-17-2005 7:36 PM


I really don't know what to make of this, or what I think of it (at least yet), but FWIW here it is. From Blogs Etc. About 10% of the way down the page, search for "Christman" (and could that be a sign of Loki, or am I paranoid?):
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It turns out that my colleagues and I have just published a scientific paper shedding interesting light on why some people persist in believing literal creationist stories despite the preponderance of scientific evidence in favor of evolution. Namely, our work shows that strong right-handedness, relative to mixed- or inconsistent-handedness, is associated with an increased tendency to endorse literal creationist myths. In other words, our research indicates that the more strongly right-handed a person is, the more likely they are to endorse literal creationist accounts of the origin of species. ... Niebauer, C., Christman, S., Reid, S., & Garvey, K. (2004). Interhemispheric interaction and beliefs on our origin: Degree of handedness predicts beliefs in creationism versus evolution. Laterality, vol. 9, pp. 433-447.
I'm pretty strongly right-handed.

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Brad McFall
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Message 2 of 5 (186378)
02-17-2005 7:46 PM
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02-17-2005 7:36 PM


My guess is that creationism would thus be correlated with any category of emphasis then, such as body building, success, fine motor skills in a maufacturing plant. It might also be a new effect of digital technology that in my own guess would result in over emphasis of something the more one uses this stuff.
I %suspect% that because even though some MIT researches were able to quantify that during haptic tasks the right and left hands exchange the work of the other, I was unimpressed with the psychological explanation behind these physiological facts and I think I noticed in the engineering of digital equimpent meant to harness the human sense of touch there was a failure to notive that when TWO sense modalities are involved (say touch and vision as in juggling) the change of left and right can TEND nervously in one direction only that if made real between the hands would go unnoticed by the equipment designed to match the nerve firings in the limbs.
Maybe what you found is true and not trivial. I doubt it.

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Lizard Breath
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Message 3 of 5 (186380)
02-17-2005 7:47 PM
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02-17-2005 7:36 PM


Ohh Boy, we got problems!!
"And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell"
Mathew 5:30

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Loudmouth
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Message 4 of 5 (186407)
02-17-2005 9:24 PM
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02-17-2005 7:47 PM


Re: Ohh Boy, we got problems!!
Lizard Breath,
Hoo boy, wait till buzzsaw sees your post.
This is the same warning that theistic evolutionists have been telling their fellow christians for some time now. Time after time people have given up christianity because the scientific evidence does not fit with a literal reading of the bible. The creationist movement does not let christians read the bible in any way other than literal, and this in turn drives people out of the church. While the verse you quoted is whitty it is also accurate in a round-about way.

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Phat
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Message 5 of 5 (186458)
02-18-2005 8:10 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by JonF
02-17-2005 7:36 PM


Is Loki a Moderate?
LOKI notwithstanding, you have given me an opportunity to quote a scripture...(tongue in cheek version)
NIV writes:
Matt 6:3-4= But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.
Its also a bit ironic how in politics, the left never comprehends what the right is doing, either!
JonF writes:
I'm pretty strongly right-handed.
Hopefully not too far right!
Brad McFall writes:
My guess is that creationism would thus be correlated with any category of emphasis then, such as body building, success, fine motor skills in a maufacturing plant. It might also be a new effect of digital technology that in my own guess would result in over emphasis of something the more one uses this stuff.
Is not left handedness indicative of creativity? Funny, how the words, "creationism" and "creativity" sound so similar!
Lizard Breath, quoting scrip, offered
"And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off...
yet that scrip applies to both hands...funny how Jesus DID say right, however.
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