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whatever on 30 August 2014
WhiteEaglePL said:
whatever said:
Teaching fiction as fact will do that...


Your statment implies to me that your against religion or think it is false.

 

I don't like it.

LOL.  Your funny.  Of course religion is fiction.  I suppose only YOUR religion is not fiction but all the others are fiction, right?



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whatever on 30 August 2014
VXIII said:

Children with imagination have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. Which is about every child. That's why they are children.

Ummm, what?  Having a vivid imagination has nothing to do with distinguishing fact from fiction.  You must not have kids.



Leadified on 30 August 2014
WhiteEaglePL said:
whatever said:
Teaching fiction as fact will do that...


Your statment implies to me that your against religion or think it is false.

 

I don't like it.


Religion and fact do not go together by definition, that's the whole idea behind faith.



Vikki on 30 August 2014
whatever said:
Teaching fiction as fact will do that...


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Rawrerer on 30 August 2014

First of all when you have your child you teach them everything you know and believe. (I would think this is common sense because they are your children) Just because a random stranger doesn't believe in the same things as you do you change how you parent? That is illogical.
Second you should not think it is your place to teach other peoples children unless they have given you consent or else you are a creeper.

God cannot be disproved or proved, but that doesn't mean that he didn't create everything. In fact it is more probable that the universe and even life had a guiding hand then not.



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whatever on 30 August 2014
Rawrerer said:
First of all when you have your child you teach them everything you know and believe. (I would think this is common sense because they are your children) Just because a random stranger doesn't believe in the same things as you do you change how you parent? That is illogical.
Second you should not think it is your place to teach other peoples children unless they have given you consent or else you are a creeper.

God cannot be disproved or proved, but that doesn't mean that he didn't create everything. In fact it is more probable that the universe and even life had a guiding hand then not.

Santa Clause and unicorns cannot be diproved either, doesn't make them any more real.  It's funny that you use the word "fact", and then state something that is abolutely as far from a fact as is possible.  So if this god exists, how did he get created?  You've only compounded the problem of determining life's origins.



akhmenhawk on 30 August 2014
jigokutamago said:
Seece said:
WhiteEaglePL said:
Seece said:

No offense but why would he care if you don't like it? The majority of people think it's false and some have perfectally good, rational reason to be against religion.

I still don't like it. And no the majority of people on the planet are not atheist.

Didn't say that. Are there not like 4,000 different religions? Of which they don't believe in the same things (obviously).

That said, the majority of people in my country (and the country VGChartz resides in) are atheist :)

Dude, it's right in the same article

"According to 2013-2014 Gallup data, roughly 83 percent of Americans report a religious affiliation, and an even larger group -- 86 percent -- believe in God."

'Worldwide in America' all over again..



Puppyroach on 30 August 2014

Even though I Believe it is correct that religious people have a harder time separating fact from fiction (believing in invisible beings tend to do that :)) but a sample Group of 66 kids is WAY to small to make any conclusions.



Rawrerer on 30 August 2014

It is a fact that God is more probable. The probabilty for something to be created from nothing is the same probabilty as 0 = 1. Now the probabilty of a God who can manipulate physics into what he wants is far more probable. Just look at the math.

Dna and Rna have been compared to a computer code. What computer program do you know that created itself? A computer program is created by a programmer. That is the factual reality that God is more probable. Not saying God is 100% but i am saying that God is more likely then chaos.



IIIIITHE1IIIII on 30 August 2014
MTZehvor said:

Religion doesn't "obscure" adults' ability to distinguish between what's hard to believe and what isn't; I think anyone who believes in the Bible or some other religious book would tell you that it requires a great deal of faith to believe in what's written there. They believe in them knowing full well how improbable it seems, which is the exact opposite of this study. The study is arguing that kids' ability to distinguish probability is being affected, and my point is that by adulthood that effect is gone.


So, what you're essentially saying is that there are billions of people all over the world believing that they will win the lottery, despite knowing how unlikely that is to happen.

 

That, if anything, strongly suggests that their ability to distinguish probability is skewed.