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Love is an emotion which can very well be scientifically explained

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    jonny_k
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    Peace,
    Many people still cant get rid of the nonsensible supernatural views in regards to feelings like love, thinking that science has not found any answer as to how to explain this phenomena naturally. Well once again this is only showing ignorance on their part. Infact theres a whole section on wiki termed "Love(scientific views)" which explains everything naturally
    http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%28scientific_views%29
    Heres just an excerpt from wiki about how love comes into being

    Biological models of sex tend to view love as a mammalian drive, much like hunger or thirst. Helen Fisher, a leading expert in the topic of love, divides the experience of love into three partly-overlapping stages lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust exposes people to others, romantic attraction encourages people to focus their energy on mating, and attachment involves tolerating the spouse long enough to rear a child into infancy.

    Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen. These effects rarely last more than a few weeks or months. Attraction is the more individualized and romantic desire for a specific candidate for mating, which develops out of lust as commitment to an individual mate forms. Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side-effects such as an increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years.

    Since the lust and attraction stages are both considered temporary, a third stage is needed to account for long-term relationships. Attachment is the bonding which promotes relationships that last for many years, and even decades. Attachment is generally based on commitments such as marriage and children, or on mutual friendship based on things like shared interests. It has been linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin than short-term relationships have.

    In 2005, Italian scientists at Pavia University found that a protein molecule known as the nerve growth factor (NGF) has high levels when people first fall in love, but these levels return to as they were after one year. Specifically, four neurotrophin levels, i.e. NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4, of 58 subjects who had recently fallen in love were compared with levels in a control group who were either single or already engaged in a long-term relationship. The results showed that NGF levels were significantly higher in the subjects in love than as compared to either of the control groups.

    Taken from http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love#Biology_of_love
    You may also wish to read http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_chemistry#Neurochemistry
    GOD Bless!

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      Angel
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      JK if love was not scientifically proven would you still believe in it?

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        Elke
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        Peace johnny

        you know the one about which came first, the hen or the egg ?

        Albert Einstein Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

        And the saying A little science turn you away from God, but a lot brings you closer.

        I would say in this case Too much science can take beauty out of anything ;D

        lk

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          Angel
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          peace be upon you,

          And the saying A little science turn you away from God, but a lot brings you closer.

          Richard Dawkins refers to such people as 'gap worshippers'

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            Elke
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            peace be upon you,Richard Dawkins refers to such people as 'gap worshippers' D

            peace angel

            i think he refered particularly to the creationists

            ..."The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, and he makes a point about creationists being "gap worshippers," meaning that whenever a scientist can't explain something, they (creationists) immediately fill that gap with "it must be God."...

            That's not really the sens of this quote, but may be it lost trough translation
            "Un peu de science ?loigne de Dieu ; Beaucoup de science y ram?ne"
            It's about the more you know, the closer you'll come to God, or to believing in God..., but Blaise Pascal also said
            "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne conna?t pas"
            "Heart (love) has got its reasons that reason does not know (share) "

            or should it go "love has got its reasons that science does not know" ;D

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              jonny_k
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              Peace "lk",

              I would say in this case Too much science can take beauty out of anything

              JK- Id say the more i engage in science, the more beautiful and amazing the world appears to me. sun GOD Bless!

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                jonny_k
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                Peace "lk",

                Peace johnny

                you know the one about which came first, the hen or the egg ?

                JK- Birds, including the hen evolved from dinosaurs and/or archeoraptors. Those reptiles, who also lay eggs, in turn evolved from fish which also lay eggs. Those fish evolved from single celled organiosms under water. Thus first came the first primitive fish types from single celled organisms and those then laid eggs. Infact mammals are also born inside an egg type structure but it dimishes inside the body and the new born comes out withotu the protective shell. GOD Bless!

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                  Elke
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                  Thank you for the definition johnny, but i was rather looking for philosophical aspects sun
                  peace lk

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                    Samia
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                    Salaam Johny

                    Shall we expect one day the arrival of "love pills", nowthat they found its chemical components?

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                      Rumi
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                      Salaam Johny

                      Shall we expect one day the arrival of "love pills", nowthat they found its chemical components?

                      YES!! can't wait, a real actual love potion!! None of this flirting, taking out and dining nonsense!! Take pills and bring her home to mama!!

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                        Angel
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                        lol if such a pill was invented i bet there would be a ridiculous number of side-effects you would suffer from if you took the pills.

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                          Samia
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                          lol if such a pill was invented i bet there would be a ridiculous number of side-effects you would suffer from if you took the pills.

                          Yes, like you take the pill while someone else gives you sweetheart a pill and you're left high and dry with an enormous load of love...lovearrhea

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                            Angel
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                            rotfl

                            ....actually when you study them closely, medicines have way too many side effects....

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                              jonny_k
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                              Peace,
                              I agree with "angel" on the love pill issue. Its bogus. To fall in love naturally is much more healthy and beautiful. Besides pills are only to be used if necessary and as long as required. GOD Bless!

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                                Angel
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                                it is an interesting idea though. !

                                and if anybody does decide to invent it, they can end up making millions over night. hmm

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