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Posted at 12:51 pm in In the News
Children are “born believers” in God and do not simply acquire religious beliefs through indoctrination, according to an academic.
Telegraph
Martin Beckford
24 Nov 2008
Dr. Barrett: “If we threw a handful on an island and they raised themselves I think they would believe in God.”
Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created with a purpose.
