Study out to prove faith
I got a link to a news article from David, the article is about the University of Oxford’s study to determine the origins of faith in god.
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He said anthropological and philosophical research suggests that faith in God is a universal human impulse found in most cultures around the world, even though it has been waning in Britain and western Europe.
It seems that the leading figures in this study are in the mindset that religion is built-in to our systems. Do you think this would be an objective study?
“One implication that comes from this is that religion is the default position, and atheism is perhaps more in need of explanation,” Roger Trigg said.
Can you really prove that faith is innate?
I don’t think so. While history shows that societies in general have always had a religious inclination, I doubt that this trend will continue in the coming centuries or even millenia. As humanity, if we survive our conflicts of faith, then it is safe to say that science, the argument of reason and logical thinking will lead the way for future generations. I think that we’ve always been religious because we didn’t have any other way to explain our world around us. Our ancestors had to try to make sense of the rain, the sun coming up in the morning and setting down at night, other phenomena were simply unexplainable to them. Their explanation was that a “greater being” was in control of all this. We obviously now know that there is a scientific reason why things happen, and it is not magically designed.
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