highwayuni said:
I teach kids. Kids at that age are gullible and will believe a lot of stuff you tell them. |
Yeah, but religious kids are more likely to believe what you tell them according to this study.
highwayuni said:
I teach kids. Kids at that age are gullible and will believe a lot of stuff you tell them. |
Yeah, but religious kids are more likely to believe what you tell them according to this study.
Scoobes said:
To be fair, the original study didn't make this link. It talks specifically about children's development and ability to differentiate between reality and fiction rather than adulthood. It's not just religious stories either, but also stories featuring fantastical elements such as magic. Basically, religious kids are more gullible than non-religious. |
Right, and I realize that. My original point was directed towards the earlier posters in the thread, who were acting like this was some sort of horrible thing that would affect kids permanently or something.
It's nothing more than telling a six year old that Santa Claus exists. A six year old who believe in Santa Claus is probably more likely to answer "yes" when asked if the Easter bunny exists than a kid who doesn't. It doesn't mean their rational thinking is going to be affected, or their intelligence will be stunted, or anything. Are they more guillible for the time being? Perhaps, but the people arguing that this is somehow a permenant affect on their supposed guillibility are grasping at straws.
The_Sony_Girl1 said: Guys stop it! This article is stupid, considering that while children are gullible, they always ask their parents or siblings if the things they learned was right. And NO ONE is born a Christian, that's a choice they make themselves. |
Is it though? I'd argue that religion is often a desicion that is made for children by their parents.
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Ka-pi96 said:
I don't think you can try and argue what is more probable as a fact. For one thing, your analogy doesn't even work. If the universe was created by a deity then how was that deity created? Did it create itself? Does that not create the exact same problem that you think a universe without a deity had? |
The theory of the God (om·nip·o·tent)- A god who can do anything can exist forever, see alpha and omega for more information.
"I don't think you can try and argue what is more probable as a fact." Well I just did so I guess I can.
Rawrerer said:
The theory of the God (om·nip·o·tent)- A god who can do anything can exist forever, see alpha and omega for more information.
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God isn't more probable, if at all. It's an idea that humans came up with thousands of years ago because they couldn't explain certain phenomena such as weather. And let's say there is a god that exists. That god will not even be close to the Christian imagination of God or Yahweh or Allah.
Your DNA and RNA analogy is also dead wrong. Computer codes can be simply typed from the keyboard. However, it took millions, if not even a billion years for DNA and RNA to exist (see Miller-Urey experiment).
"Religious Children Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction"
uh huh... and so do nonreligious children
its interesting to bear in mind though that a lot of the ideas that the general public holds as "fact" are fantasy
so if you ask me its a problem that is pervasive throughout society as a whole
Anfebious said: It doesn't matter what this study says I will teach my kids about the love of Satan, my lord. |
Is your dark lord stronger than my saviour, Cthulhu? Like do you reckon he could win in a game of hop-scotch?
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ikki5 said:
because then you have an even less likly occurance where you have Chaos from everything being pulled into order and staying maintained. It would be like if you took all the parts of a watch, shook the bag and you then came out with a working watch that was running on with the correct time. |
But if you put all the base elements and chemicals in a bag they start making amino acids and base pairs... So they have a natural deposition to form the building blocks of life.
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justgames7604 said:
But if you put all the base elements and chemicals in a bag they start making amino acids and base pairs... So they have a natural deposition to form the building blocks of life. |
If you stuck Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen and Hydrogen into a bag, you won't get amino acids. Otherwise the atmosphere would be forming Amino Acids in redicious quantities in front of our eyes. We'd be swimming in them. There needs to be something to push the elements to form into that other wise they will just form into other easier things to create such as O2, CO2, H2 and N2, etc. You need something more than the base parts of those for them to be created. Also, when you say chemicals, that would mean other molecules formed by other elements which are again, usually Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon though other elements may be included, still then, if you added them, the likihood of them just randomly forming into the side chains or the R group is very unlikily.
This thread is exactly as predicted.