John Haught, an emeritus professor of theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., believes that spiritual experiences are connected to the brain processes and dependent on them but not reducible to them. He says it is possible to distinguish between the chemical basis of experiences and the experiences themselves. Life and mind cannot be reduced to chemistry any more than the content of a written page can be reduced to the chemistry of ink and paper, he says. He has written extensively on the relationship between scientific and religious belief as well as on atheism.
| Website | http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/fellows/john-haught.html |
| Phone number | 202-687-6119 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Church & state, education, Science & health, Society & culture |
| Locations | United States of America, Washington, D.C. |
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| Faiths | Atheism/Agnosticism, Christianity |
| Languages | English |