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Richard Dawkins is a walking atheist resource; you don’t believe in God, you go to him for further affirmation of this godless universe. Michael Persinger, on the other hand, has invented a special helmet that stimulates certain parts of the human brain to induce religious experience.

The premise is simple: Make an avowed atheist like Richard Dawkins wear the special religion-inducing helmet. Push the red button. See what happens.

Dawkins, renowned for his biological theories as well as for his criticism of religion, volunteered to test Persinger’s electromagnetic device—the “God machine,” as some journalists dubbed it. “I’ve always been curious to know what it would be like to have a mystical experience,” Dawkins said shortly before the experiment. Afterward, he admitted on BBC that he was “very disappointed” that he did not experience “communion with the universe” or some other spiritual sensation.

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