Science, God and DawahFilms
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Date: 2017-12-20

From 03.2011
Fitrah, DawahFilms and Science
This is a comment on the claims that science has established a natural propensity to a god in the human brain. I also show what the result is for people like DawahFilms, who don't look for background information or take a critical look at something which only satisfies their immediate and superficial requirements. such as a headline. So they see the title of a paper which mentions science and something that would fit into their agenda and they take it on board without any checks.

I do not say that religion is "hardwired" or "innate" – rather that children have propensities to believe in gods because of how their minds naturally work
- Dr. Justin Barrett

Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds

In two studies, 5- and 6-year-old children were questioned about the status of the protagonist embedded in three different types of stories. In realistic stories that only included ordinary events, all children, irrespective of family background and schooling, claimed that the protagonist was a real person. In religious stories that included ordinarily impossible events brought about by divine intervention, claims about the status of the protagonist varied sharply with exposure to religion. Children who went to church or were enrolled in a parochial school, or both, judged the protagonist in religious stories to be a real person, whereas secular children with no such exposure to religion judged the protagonist in religious stories to be fictional. Children's upbringing was also related to their judgment about the protagonist in fantastical stories that included ordinarily impossible events whether brought about by magic (Study 1) or without reference to magic (Study 2). Secular children were more likely than religious children to judge the protagonist in such fantastical stories to be fictional. The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children's differentiation between reality and fiction, not just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12138/abstract

Kathleen H. Corriveau, Eva E. Chen, Paul L. Harris, 3 JUL 2014
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12138



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Sources:

The papers
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2011/110513.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714103828.htm

Templeton Foundation
http://www.skepdic.com/essays/templeton.html
http://www.templeton-cambridge.org/fellows/showarticle.php?article=731


The childish beliefs of Dr Justin Barrett 
http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2009/01/childish-beliefs-of-dr-justin-barret.html

Comments
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3191/are-human-beings-naturally-predisposed-to-believe-in-god
http://www.templeton-cambridge.org/fellows/showarticle.php?article=731

The project papers
http://www.cam.ox.ac.uk/research/cognition-religion-and-theology/project-summary/
http://www.cam.ox.ac.uk/research/cognition-religion-and-theology/
http://www.cam.ox.ac.uk/research/cognition-religion-and-theology/publications/topics/

Why is your God special?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR2idbwUx5M



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