Atheism is the default position.

My opponent makes the claim "children are born believing that there is a God"His assertion is based on a quote:Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created with a purpose. A predisposition is not based on evidence. "Young people" are not babies. An assumption doesn't mean it's true. An assumption without evidencecan be dismissed without evidence. My opponent then goes on to say,"He says that young children have faith even when they have not been taught about it by family or at school, and argues that even those raised alone on a desert island would come to believe in God. That doesn't make theism the default position. They don't START OUT as theists. They "would come to believe in God" at a later time. They start out as atheists. My opponent then proves me right by saying"Ofcourse (sic) new borns are not developed to think about things or what to believe"That means new borns can't possibly be theists, because they aren't developed enough to believe anything! My opponent then continues to provide evidence that atheism IS the default position! "even preschool children constructed theological concepts as part of their understanding of the physical world" That proves, again that they started out as atheists first, before they "constructed theological concepts""belief in God is not taught but develops naturally"Once again. .. the belief in god "develops naturally", AFTER one is already an atheist. More quotes from my opponent:"It was hard-wired into the human psyche, but it was important not to build too much into the concept of God. "It's the concept of God as creator, primarily,""The thing that is "hard wired" into the human psyche, is NOT the concept of god. It's the concept of creation. When a human sees something with design (like a watch or an airplane) they know from experiencethat it was created. However, complexity alone doesn't constitute design, since natural occurring things can also be complex. Children often confuse complexity with design, so they falsely assume complex things such as trees must have a creator. This false "creator" is what they label "god". "A three-year international research project, directed by two academics at the University of Oxford, finds that humans have natural tendencies to believe in gods and an afterlife. "Believing something doesn't make it true. It's wishful thinking. It can also be said that "humans have natural tendencies to believe they can win the lottery", based on how many play the lottery despite the odds of winning. I'm sorry, but my opponent has failed to provide evidence that proves his claim that"children are born believing that there is a God"He did provide evidence that children develop beliefs about god in later life, after they are already atheists. He also admitted that babies can't be born theists, due to the fact that "new borns are not developed to think about things or what to believe". The default position is the position you begin with. My opponent made a clear case that we begin as atheists and then develop into theists. NOTE: I did not provide sources, since the sources provided by my opponent actually proved my position that atheism is, in fact, the default position.