Children's Natural Predisposition to Religious Belief

DAY 313 CHALLENGE “Religion is unnatural. Children are not born as believers but have to be indoctrinated into it.” DEFENSE On the contrary, children are naturally predisposed to religious belief. As scientists have shown using tests that measure the amount of attention babies pay to things, they are aware in the first year of life of the difference between beings with mind and intention (agents) and inanimate objects. Further tests have indicated that small children do not presuppose that agents are human or that they must be visible, and they are prepared to attribute superhuman le...