Religion
In reply to the discussion: People Are Born with Religious Belief Argues New Book [View all]skepticscott
(13,029 posts)"People Are Born with Religious Belief Argues New Book" is his first statement, and then he follows with: "A controversial new book contends that we are all born predisposed to religious belief."
Being born with something and being born predisposed to something are two very different things. People are born predisposed to many things, but with most traits having a genetic basis, whether and to what degree they actually develop depends to a significant degree on the developmental environment. Being born predisposed to certain cancers is not the same as being born with cancer, and being born with a predisposition to acquire language is not the same as being born with perfect fluency.
It's a fundamental and critical distinction, one that some of the posters here also seem not to have grasped. And of course, even if humans ARE predisposed to religiosity of some sort (as they may well be), and even if every single human actually does develop religious beliefs, that says nothing about whether the "gods" they come to believe in actually exist.