RE: New Scientist 2856
March 23, 2012 at 11:55 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2012 at 11:57 pm by SaintGeorge.)
I can argue a thousand counter points to the OP's posed issues.
Lets limit it to this one:
The first sentence alone shows bad intend. Basically saying children are empty and that you can PROGRAM whatever into them what you like. There is a name for it and it is called Indoctrination. It is the main reason so many Atheists do not want Theists to teach biology in the classroom.
The moment your teacher is a believer,... you can never get unbiased science education as their socalled science education will always have -God- as the common fact of thruth. As the above shows that "children find it easy to accept supernatural explanations". To discount Santa Clause is a fail, because he ignores the whole fact that at some point children are TOLD hat Santa does not exists. However,... if you never tell a child that Santa does not exists,... Santa will be on the same realm as a God.
The biggest fail of religion is that they fail at science. To see any religious argument mention a person taking it up for God,... makes me laugh. No religion has EVER followed the scientific doctrines, scientific method. It are only those that already believe in a God that tend to believe that whatever their speaker is saying about science.... is true.
It has been world wide accepted that the Scientific Method is the most unbiased and honoust way, to determine thruth. Religious speakers only use it when is suits their needs,... for all other ocassions they ignore it completely.
Lets limit it to this one:
Quote:The first is by Justin L. Barrett who makes the case that children are born believers with a “God-shaped” space waiting to be filled. He is a psychologist who works at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, so is certainly a committed Christian – in fact I have seen him described as such elsewhere – but this does not necessarily render his views completely without merit. His case seems to be that children find it very easy to accept supernatural explanations for things, and are constantly looking for causes or agents when looking at the world around them, and that “we all share an intuition that apparent order and design such as we see in the world around us requires an agent to bring it about”. He discounts the Santa Clause or Tooth Fairy analogy because people do not come to believe in these entities in adulthood. His article is very careful not to draw the conclusion “therefore God exists” , merely that children are susceptible to that suggestion – which we all knew anyway.
The other articles are.
The first sentence alone shows bad intend. Basically saying children are empty and that you can PROGRAM whatever into them what you like. There is a name for it and it is called Indoctrination. It is the main reason so many Atheists do not want Theists to teach biology in the classroom.
The moment your teacher is a believer,... you can never get unbiased science education as their socalled science education will always have -God- as the common fact of thruth. As the above shows that "children find it easy to accept supernatural explanations". To discount Santa Clause is a fail, because he ignores the whole fact that at some point children are TOLD hat Santa does not exists. However,... if you never tell a child that Santa does not exists,... Santa will be on the same realm as a God.
The biggest fail of religion is that they fail at science. To see any religious argument mention a person taking it up for God,... makes me laugh. No religion has EVER followed the scientific doctrines, scientific method. It are only those that already believe in a God that tend to believe that whatever their speaker is saying about science.... is true.
It has been world wide accepted that the Scientific Method is the most unbiased and honoust way, to determine thruth. Religious speakers only use it when is suits their needs,... for all other ocassions they ignore it completely.
"Ha, you did not read the Bible,... untill you do it is pointless to talk to you!"... How many Christians or Muslims or whatever do you know ... have studied Atheism, and actually know what it means? True,... knowledge is better... BUT you attack THEM on the knowledge THEY lack about you. That is how you win.
