Quote from the article:
"Independent ratings suggest that, as predicted, perceptions of God’s face are shaped by egocentrism," the authors write in the study, published in PLOS One.
"Older participants saw an older God, more attractive participants saw a more attractive God, and African Americans saw a marginally more African American God."
Just as the Bible says God created man in his own image, it turns out we make our gods in ours."
Link to article: The Face of God
Put a check mark in the unsurprised column for me.
Which is more illustrative of human hubris? Is it the idea we could, without evidence, conjure an image of a being who supposedly created a universe or, that the image is of ourselves?
The bit I find most intriguing is, we stumbled upon the correct answer but, true to form, we misinterpreted the answer. Which is to say, humans do create the universe moment-to-moment in our own minds. More correctly, we model a personal mental construct of the universe. The model is poor but compelling. However, as one might expect, we are quite impressed with our handiwork.
