RE: Teaching Reason (to Children)
July 8, 2013 at 11:35 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2013 at 11:36 am by Faith No More.)
Don't forget to lay upon them the importance of the scientific method and providing evidence for claims.
I was like summer and was accidentally raised atheist. My dad's a scientist and was always telling me about how people will make silly claims like talking to the dead, and he made sure to point out that we only understand something to be true if it can be verified. Plus, they took my sister and I to lots of children's museums and such where science is the main focus. I turned that critical eye towards the religion I was being raised in, and the rest was history. It probably also helped that they didn't talk about religion whatsoever or indoctrinate me into it. They just took me to church.
My son is just getting to that age where I can converse with him, and I plan on presenting him with some thought exercises about evidence and the burden of proof. I will never, ever tell my son that a god doesn't exist or that he can't believe in him. I only wish to give him the tools to reason properly and make his own decisions.
I was like summer and was accidentally raised atheist. My dad's a scientist and was always telling me about how people will make silly claims like talking to the dead, and he made sure to point out that we only understand something to be true if it can be verified. Plus, they took my sister and I to lots of children's museums and such where science is the main focus. I turned that critical eye towards the religion I was being raised in, and the rest was history. It probably also helped that they didn't talk about religion whatsoever or indoctrinate me into it. They just took me to church.
My son is just getting to that age where I can converse with him, and I plan on presenting him with some thought exercises about evidence and the burden of proof. I will never, ever tell my son that a god doesn't exist or that he can't believe in him. I only wish to give him the tools to reason properly and make his own decisions.
