Telegraph: 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.
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.
“The preponderance of scientific evidence for the past 10 years or so has shown that a lot more seems to be built into the natural development of children’s minds than we once thought, including a predisposition to see the natural world as designed and purposeful and that some kind of intelligent being is behind that purpose,” he told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme.
“If we threw a handful on an island and they raised themselves I think they would believe in God.”
In a lecture to be given at the University of Cambridge’s Faraday Institute on Tuesday, Dr Barrett will cite psychological experiments carried out on children that he says show they instinctively believe that almost everything has been designed with a specific purpose.
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@Iftikhar Ahmad; We are all children of the ‘One God’ of us all. How one comes to realization of that concept is not important, only that one does. My path certainly was not the same as yours, but we are both at the same place now, I’d like to believe: That we are all children of the ‘One God’ of us all…