Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience

uncritically by the press,

policy makers and even

The problem, however, is that headlines claim that we have identified the cause of depression or love or autism or Alzheimer’s, just because an area of the brain lights up in association

In December 2011, Professor John Stein, a leading Oxford neuroscientist, wrote, “Claims are being made about brain research that just aren’t true, and they are being accepted