Religion
In reply to the discussion: People Are Born with Religious Belief Argues New Book [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)Jeez, mention the Nazis at the drop of the hat, will ya?
Also, for adults, we do double blind studies all the time in medicine, but we are different from the Nazis, we ask for volunteers.
For kids this isn't possible, that doesn't mean that his observations are automatically valid, they are still anecdotes, and hence carry no evidential weight. Indeed, there are no controls for outside influences at all. The anecdote I see mentioned above is a typical example, a 5 year old ask atheist parents about God, guess what, even if the parents never mentioned God, that kid was born and raised in a culture where God, Jesus, etc. are still mentioned, even if no one goes to church. So its not exactly surprising the kid is asking questions about a guy they heard about in daycare/preschool, on TV, Radio or even the Internet. That doesn't indicate anything beyond the culture still mentions those things.