Comments on: Even atheists can experience pareidolia…

By: Mayor Hardin

Mayor Hardin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:33:54 +0000

The supreme being has nice panties, if I am forming an image from the same portion of this amazing display as others. (Based on the “white hair” at the top right).

By: JJR

JJR — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:32:14 +0000

I dunno, I see G.I.R. from Invader Zim…sort of; and even that’s a stretch.

The Horse-Head nebula is a lot more impressive and easy to “see”. The Crab Nebula is rather abstract, though…I get why they call it that, but again, kind of a stretch.

All I can say about the Greeks & Romans and their star Constellations in the sky is–they were sure a lot more imaginative people than I am! Orion’s belt, you say? Ok, if you say so…it all looks like variations of “the big dipper” to me…

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:28:06 +0000

Um…lotsa cool colors, a couple of what could be partial faces, a kitty cat made of sea coral, some soft-set jello, but nope, I see no gods. Oh well.

By: jimmy dean

jimmy dean — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:24:21 +0000

Don’t tell me that nobody has noticed the deer head… makes me wanna blast some deer with my .44

By: catherine

catherine — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:59:10 +0000

Wow, that’s lovely. And to think it all happened within the past 6,000 years. Yeah, baby.

By: Eve

Eve — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:07:19 +0000

AUM, gawd works in mysterious ways, even through comic writers…

And now I see an evil clown! Curse you, brodie and Our Lady of Perpetual Motion!

By: Sovereign John

Sovereign John — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:35:04 +0000

WoW amazing Hubble pictures and we’re looking for something as mundane as a human image in all this beauty? Good Gosh.

It’s bad enough that the Christians took the beautiful sun and turned it into a human being to worship. Science is truly more amazing than our imagination.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:31:56 +0000

Nicodraxus: that’s just your brain providing “order to chaos”. It’s the same reason your mind provides missing letters (think: Wheel of Fortune, and Hangman…). And why, as Sagan says, you recognize a particular person, well before you can see him/her clearly.

Religious pareidolia seems to fulfill some need in them - to ascribe the vague image to a manifestation of Gord. They need to see Gord everywhere, because they’re brainwashed into believing he IS everywhere at all times.

Atheists can look at the above image and say, “Cool! Looks like Ali Baba in a dust cloud…” and go on with our lives, no deeper impacted than having experienced a Magic-Eye 3D pic.

I hope no one believed for one nanosecond that I really saw the fundie’s creator! Or that my mind is still looking for evidence of one!

Once a genuine atheist, always an atheist. KA’s ex-atheist from a few days is most likely a “propagandizing mole”…