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.

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Paul BLOOM, Osman Zahid ÇİFÇİ

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Is God an Accident?

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  • EP ID EP617090
  • DOI 10.30523/mutefekkir.130256
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Paul BLOOM, Osman Zahid ÇİFÇİ (2015). Is God an Accident?. Mütefekkir, 2(3), 229-243. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-617090