Scientists Spot Secret in Michelangelo God
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Michelangelo used the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to conceal a message the church would have found blasphemous, according to a pair of neuroanatomists. God‘s oddly lumpy neck in The Separation of Light from Darkness, a detail that has long puzzled art historians, is actually a completely accurate depiction of the human brain painted by the artist, who was a highly skilled anatomist.
The neuroanatomists haven’t speculated on what Michelangelo meant by including the brain diagram in the image of God, but it could well have been a comment on “the enduring clash between science and religion,” neurosurgeon R. Thomas Fields writes in Scientific American. It may also be the case, Field writes, that Michelangelo—who had a strained relationship with the Catholic Church—was signaling that “intelligence and observation and the bodily organ that makes them possible lead, without the necessity of Church, directly to God.”
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There IS a God…HallieBerry….er I mean HalliBurton…or Hallllieluyah!!
The original Lumpy.
LOL!
Too bad we can’t see if god has a belly button! That would really solve it.
I sure I spotted an Adam’s Apple too, that means Adam was around before God. So, Adam is the new God.
Crazy nutballs can find a conspiracy anywhere. He was merely painting the big cheese stuffing his face in mid-snack.
LOL! That was it!!