Is God an Accident?
Journal Title: Mütefekkir - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Despite the vast number of religion, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation ofthe universe.Recently psychologists doing research on theminds of infants have discovered txvo relatedfacts that may account for this phenomena. One: human beings come into the world witha predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predispositionis an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry.
Authors and Affiliations
Paul BLOOM, Osman Zahid ÇİFÇİ
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