Doesn't it seem that Children have a natural theism?

As usual you don't understand the question

Yowser wowser, 47 posts on your fave (or is that your One and Only) topic in the last 2 hours, give yourself a hand and clasp it firmly to your lips.



If the answer to your question is predicated upon a belief in an imaginary being then the question is posed by someone with what I consider to be low comprehension skills.

That was my point, the opposite of what you say !! That it is not predicated on anything ! Did you read it, we are talking about little children, many in the study were not even speaking.

Have you ever raised children???? It's difficult for me to understand how you could possibly think that is true if you ever had to guide a child from birth to maturity.

How do you propose that the children displayed a natural theism in those cases where "many in the study were not even speaking"?

...maybe he noticed that they were clutching their straws !

No need to gloss olalia over the evidence.

That's a bunch of bull pucky! Who are these so-called developmental psychologists? Name some, and provide us with their email address.

What a shame that you forgot to provide attribution to Justin L Barrett for his piece published in the Guardian Religion section in 2008.

Wikipedia notes:

Barrett is described in the New York Times as a "prominent member of the byproduct camp" and "an observant Christian who believes in “an all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God who brought the universe into being,” [and] “that the purpose for people is to love God and love each other.” He considers that “Christian theology teaches that people were crafted by God to be in a loving relationship with him and other people, Why wouldn’t God, then, design us in such a way as to find belief in divinity quite natural?” Having a scientific explanation for mental phenomena does not mean we should stop believing in them. “Suppose science produces a convincing account for why I think my wife loves me — should I then stop believing that she does?”

Finding that some children believe in super-beings is somewhat unsurprising.

Yea. Superman comes to mind.

You are still avoiding everything. Are the studies wrong ? Not up to research standards ? you won't and can't address that. Now I went in search of the answer to 'What do children believe? " and that is what I found.

I must check this out before mouthing off. Must be me getting more reserved.