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Creation 36(3):8, July 2014

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Men and women really are different

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A new study further highlights the major differences in outlook between males and females (in stark contrast to the dogma of ‘political correctness’ that gender differences are caused by society—but apparently gays are born that way).

Researchers used a special brain-scanning technique called diffusion tensor imaging to map the nerve connections between nearly 100 regions of the brain. They found that the brains of men and women “are wired up differently”, and that this could explain some of the stereotypical differences in male and female behaviour. After puberty, male brains tend to be more connected from the front to back of the same hemisphere, while female brains are more connected between the left and right hemispheres, except for the cerebellum used for motor control.

These differences between the sexes have been previously well documented by rigorous testing, with men generally outperforming women at spatial tasks and motor skills, while women are generally better at verbal tasks involving memory and intuition.

Ragini Verma, professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, made it clear that the brain imaging results were inescapable:

“These maps show us a stark difference—and complementarity—in the architecture of the human brain that helps to provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others.”

Such ‘hardwired’ complementarity between men and women makes complete sense if there was Someone who ‘wired’ them up differently in the first place. “Male and female He created them,” the Bible says (Genesis 1:27). Vive la différence!

• The hardwired difference between male and female brains could explain why men are ‘better at map reading’, www.independent.com, 3 December 2013.
• Ingalhalikar, M. et al., Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2 December 2013 | doi: 10.1073/pnas.1316909110.