(February 7, 2016 at 1:55 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 4, 2016 at 10:10 pm)athrock Wrote: Turns out it's pretty hard to believe in nothing when your psyche is wired for faith.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/postevery...age%2Fcard
After reading the article, my questions are:
Why on God's green earth is the human brain wired for faith when our development is the result of purely evolutionary processes with no supreme being involved at all?
Is it possible that God gave us brains that are pre-wired for receptivity to His existence to make it easier for us to believe in Him?
I think this could be a valid point. It seems like there is some sort of "instinct" in humans to worship something. There are exceptions though, of course.
It might make sense if every instinct we have were correct and there were no other explanation for the intinct though even then it would still be just another god of the gaps argument. But all our instincts are not correct. We are a superstitious lot, we humans. We are wIred for confirmation bias leading to supersitions. Lots and lots of supertitions. And the gap is fillling up as there are good explanations for why we might have a faith instinct other than god put it there: the need to learn from parents; anthromorphism; confirmation bias; inner dialog; etc.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
