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Humans may be primed to believe in creation (Humans evolved that tendency)
New Scientist ^ | March 2,2009 | Ewen Callaway

Posted on 03/10/2009 7:40:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Religion might not be the only reason people buy into creationism and intelligent design, psychological experiments suggest.

No matter what their religious beliefs, college-educated adults frequently agree with purpose-seeking yet false explanations of natural phenomena - finches diversified in order to survive, for instance.

"The very fact of belief in purpose itself might lead you to favour intelligent design," says Deborah Kelemen, a psychologist at Boston University, who led the study

Kelemen has documented the same kind of erroneous thinking - called promiscuous teleology - in young children. Seven and eight-year olds agree with teleological statements such as "Rocks are jagged so animals can scratch themselves" and "Birds exist to make nice music". These mistakes diminish as kids take more science classes and learn causal explanations for natural events.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: creation; evolution; intelligentdesign
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1 posted on 03/10/2009 7:40:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Matthew 13:19 (King James Version)

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.


2 posted on 03/10/2009 7:42:35 AM PDT by shineon
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To: SeekAndFind

So atheists aren’t really evolved smarter than religious people, they are still lagging behind closer to the dumb apes?

(Sorry, couldn’t help myself)


3 posted on 03/10/2009 7:42:37 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you want to know about “erroneous thinking, check out the New Scientist’s constant stuff on climate change. These folks should be on the Obamaloon cabinet. Evidently, science is not their forte either.


4 posted on 03/10/2009 7:43:15 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind
I want to see the study that shows that most psychologists are more F@$ked up than the general populous
5 posted on 03/10/2009 7:46:22 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Da Coyote

6 posted on 03/10/2009 7:47:31 AM PDT by shineon
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To: SeekAndFind
Thou has made us for thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

... quia fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te.

7 posted on 03/10/2009 7:47:36 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think there are a number of things that humans are primed to believe.


8 posted on 03/10/2009 7:48:13 AM PDT by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nah, God created them that way.


9 posted on 03/10/2009 7:49:10 AM PDT by dangus
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To: SeekAndFind

“These mistakes diminish as kids take more science classes and learn casual explanations for natural events.”

Translation: They get their minds right, once they’ve been
properly indoctrinated.


10 posted on 03/10/2009 7:50:05 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Communism is Socialism with a gun to your head.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is how they do science nowadays. They haven’t identified a mechanism for this belief. They’ve merely identified an apparent phenomenon, but don’t really know anything about it. And so — of course! — they’ve put it into the category labeled “Evidence for Evolution”.


11 posted on 03/10/2009 7:52:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Rocks are jagged so animals can scratch themselves?” It has been over 50 years, but I would be willing to bet that I was smarter than that at 7! Perhaps the study should have further defined these as 7 yr. old idiots, or perhaps, 7 yr. old children of whacko leftists. You know...the parents who look out on 3 feet of snow and blame global warming!


12 posted on 03/10/2009 7:59:48 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: shineon

Scientists will use the terms ‘design’ and ‘purpose’. There is no denying that bird wings, for example, serve a purpose. The purpose is flight. It is claimed that ‘evolution’ developed these apparati to fulfill that purpose. These people of science should ponder the definition of the word ‘purpose’. Purpose requires ‘intent’. Perhaps science can explain the intentions of a mindless universe.


13 posted on 03/10/2009 8:01:42 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: SeekAndFind

The belief and practice of Judeo-Christianity requires logic. I recall a scripture that says when you see a house, you know there is a builder. The house did materialize from nothingness and assemble itself. In the same way, when I contemplate the ordered structure of nature, all the way from subatomic particles to galaxies in the universe, I know there is a builder.


14 posted on 03/10/2009 8:13:10 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (I am inconsolate over the death of our country.)
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To: Right Brother

Ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. However I must not let myself forget the rest of this story.

If I have been given the correct background information, it was the Wright Brothers preacher Father who is quoted as saying...

“If man were meant to fly, God would have given him wings.”

So there are many sides to the same God.

I also love the fact the Genesis tells the same basic story as evolution.

Heavens, Earth, water, land, trees, fish, birds, animals, man. The only significant difference is that the Bible story of creation puts the Sun, moon and stars on day 4. Long after the time when God separated the light from the darkness. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

On a side note.

We also start in darkness in the womb and come into the light on day one.


15 posted on 03/10/2009 8:24:10 AM PDT by shineon
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To: SeekAndFind
The premises of reality brought forward in the whole of the Biblical texts are quite clear...

These eternal truths are simply espoused.

How they are perceived therein, thence acted upon -- is entirely dependent on the reader/hearer's disposition;

Open-mindedness??

A heart-level awareness of need to receive the eternal message??...

And a desire to discover and establish a relationship with the divine Author??

*****************

We are holding so much more than the words on pages...

We are holding God's plans for all of life:

The Love Letter...
The Owner's Manual...
THe Road Map...
The Star Chart...
The Song Book...
The Banquet Menu...

He has offered His very best from the beginning...
Holding nothing back for the redemption of His Loved Ones...

Sparing not His Only Begotten Son...

It's quite simple... quite clear...
And in these days -- perhaps a little urgent.

Please do more than read it...

Believe it...
Receive it...
Live it...
Give it...

Have a blessed Day...

16 posted on 03/10/2009 8:24:39 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: shineon

So give these scientific types a little time, a little water, a little sunlight.

Even Paul persecuted and hated Christians before he became the chief apostle to the gentiles.


17 posted on 03/10/2009 8:26:19 AM PDT by shineon
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To: SeekAndFind
Religion might not be the only reason people buy into creationism and intelligent design

The Bible, God's book, also says that "I fool has said in his heart, there is no God".

Let the Darwinists and evolutionists celebrate their own holiday; April 1st.

18 posted on 03/10/2009 8:56:48 AM PDT by BillT (New Executive Order to abolish the WS Constitution to be signed to save the US Constitution)
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To: Markos33
I'm laughing because one letter in the wrong place changes the meaning entirely:

'These mistakes diminish as kids take more science classes and learn casual causal explanations for natural events.'

The really humorous part, though, is that the way you wrote it is more correct. Evos have no actual causal relationships to point to as evidence, only correlated relationships.

19 posted on 03/10/2009 10:15:00 AM PDT by webstersII
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To: webstersII

I meant to do that.

Ahem.


20 posted on 03/10/2009 10:59:04 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Communism is Socialism with a gun to your head.)
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