Is God Just Another Guy?

Been hearing a bit about this lately so I enjoyed The Last Psychiatrist's post To The Brain God Is Just Another Guy. In a nutshell, a scientific study was conducted comparing brain activity with thinking about God. Result - brain scans showed that when thinking about God certain brain areas commonly showed activity. Some of these are areas we use when empathising with people. That really does summarise it. What's missing is any understanding of what "God" means to any individual person. Who are they thinking of? A spiritual being, their fave from American Idol, a football hero, Neo?

So firstly the data input isn't necessarily uniform for each subject. Let's say all the subjects in the experiment were thinking of a spiritual being. This still leaves a lot of room for subjectivity. Did they interpret what was said to them exactly the same way, or were some thinking of the bible and others of Darth Vader? Secondly, at best you show that when thinking about "God" certain areas of the brain are involved. What is missing is exactly what each person is thinking in response to the data. i.e. what is really going on in that brain activity? Is the person thinking God, or Darth Vader, or Neo, is just another guy? Or is their brain responding to ther own individual subtext added in? To put it another way, the input is verbal (language). The output is measured by neuronal activity (somatic). If you feed generalised language into subjects with the complexity of human beings you really can't be reductionist and rely purely on a type of somatic (body) imaging. That only allows one interpretation of what has happened, within very limited parameters. Unless you already presupposed there was only one way to collect data and interpret the results. Which is along the lines of what The Last Psychiatrist said. Although not everyone gets it - which kind of proves the point in another way.