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#796 Paul Harris - Child Psychology in Twelve Questions

The Dissenter

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The Relationship Between Religion and Supernatural Beliefs

developmental psychologist says children's natural inclination is not to invoke a supernatural account but a naturalistic account. Children will typically have recourse to an explanation that is appropriate in the sense of physical explanation if it's a physical phenomenon and biological explanation if it'm a biological phenomenon. But I don't think there are just as there are for us adults there are for children major existential questions about ultimate origins ultimate destiny which are not easily answered.

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