Retracted: Neural Correlates of Belief

Much of the degeneration of the human condition is attributed to religion. As we move in the midst of the twenty first century, enjoying the cornucopia lent by technological and scientific advancements, one thing that is being widely believed to retard us is religion. For one thing, it is systematically preached that religion pollutes the human mind. There are a whole lot of neuro-scientists who are hellbent on proving that religious belief is a mental illness.In this paper we study the neural correlates of Islamic religious beliefs. We exposed a handful of subjects to true and false statements concerning Islamic religious belief. Alongside that, we expose our subjects to true and false statements about ordinary secular beliefs. In the interim we record their brain activity to analyze the neural correlates of various types of beliefs. Through this comparative analysis our hope is to quantify whether religion really is responsible for any atrophy of the human mind.