(February 19, 2015 at 12:19 pm)YGninja Wrote:(February 19, 2015 at 11:09 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I'd actually be willing to agree that a study like that is likely to exist (though in a much more coherent and less pulled-out-his-ass form, certainly not just 'dropping kids on a desert island'), but that just illustrates the process through which religions are started. Creating stories to explain unknown events and attributing them to higher beings is the modus operandi for fledgling religions. I don't know how YGninja thinks the Egyptian or Greek or Hindu pantheons started, but it's very much like people experiencing natural phenomena and, lacking sufficient explanation with the information we have nowadays, creating their 'best guess' usually illustrated through stories and myths.
YGninja's own points undercut his conclusions from the very start.
(Not even mentioning the tribes in South America that have no God concept at all)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion...laims.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics...study.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...103828.htm
The studies indicate humans are natural dualists. It's a long way from being a natural dualist to being a natural monotheist. That children would arrive at that if they survived untended on a desert island is a claim by the researcher, not a finding of the study.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
