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God Has a Youthful Face With Feminine Features.
Is this what God looks like? Scientists produce an e-fit of a 'youthful and feminine' deity based on responses from hundreds of Christians
At least that's according to a bizarre study by scientists in North Carolina who have created an 'e-fit' of God based on what American Christians think he looks like.
Far from being an old man with a beard, they found people's perceptions of God tend towards a deity that is young and less Caucasian that popular culture suggests.
The top image shows a composite of 50 faces that represents the collective demographics
of the US population. Below are three of the 300 stimuli created by adding visual noise
to the base image which participants could use to customise their image of God
A team of psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill created the sketch with the help of 511 American Christians.
Participants in the study saw hundreds of randomly varying face-pairs and selected which face from each pair appeared more like how they imagined God to appear.
By combining all the selected faces, the researchers could assemble a composite 'face of God' that reflected how each person imagined God to appear.
Their results were both surprising and revealing.
From Michelangelo to Monty Python, Illustrations of God have nearly always shown him as an old and august white-bearded Caucasian man.
But the researchers found that many Christians saw God as younger, more feminine, and less Caucasian that popular culture suggests.
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Is this what God looks like? Scientists produce an e-fit of a 'youthful and feminine' deity based on responses from hundreds of Christians
- Study was done by a team of psychologists at the University of North Carolina
- They asked 511 American Christians to look at images of hundreds of face-pairs
- They selected which face from each pair appeared more like their image of God
- By combining the faces, the scientists could assemble a composite 'face of God'
At least that's according to a bizarre study by scientists in North Carolina who have created an 'e-fit' of God based on what American Christians think he looks like.
Far from being an old man with a beard, they found people's perceptions of God tend towards a deity that is young and less Caucasian that popular culture suggests.
.......GOD
The top image shows a composite of 50 faces that represents the collective demographics
of the US population. Below are three of the 300 stimuli created by adding visual noise
to the base image which participants could use to customise their image of God
A team of psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill created the sketch with the help of 511 American Christians.
Participants in the study saw hundreds of randomly varying face-pairs and selected which face from each pair appeared more like how they imagined God to appear.
By combining all the selected faces, the researchers could assemble a composite 'face of God' that reflected how each person imagined God to appear.
Their results were both surprising and revealing.
From Michelangelo to Monty Python, Illustrations of God have nearly always shown him as an old and august white-bearded Caucasian man.
But the researchers found that many Christians saw God as younger, more feminine, and less Caucasian that popular culture suggests.
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