Brains 'are hardwired to believe in God
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Salaam,
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi wrote about this too.
Ma'salaama,
T.p.s. Yes, you can like Nursi without seeing him as a prophet.
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Children as young as seven or eight believe that rocks, rivers and birds have been created for a specific purpose.
Taken together, the two traits mean were are perfectly programmed to believe in god.
Salaam
1529 So when I perfect him, and blow of My spirit in him, you shall yield to him.-
1530 Thus, all of the angels yielded.Man was perfected with goodness yielded to him through the angels so it is in the nature of man to believe in what is right and to submit to the Creator. It?s from the outside that the whispers from Satan enter man, inciting him with ideas that go against his nature but there?s no in built evil.
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Psychologists noticed this when they were studying habits in birds. If birds were given food while they were looking over their shoulders, then they would think that the act of looking over their shoulders had caused the food to be served. After this they would keep looking over their shoulders, even if they didnt get food, but if in the rare chance they were looking over their shoulders and food was given again - they would be even more convinced of their actions.
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Psychologists noticed this when they were studying habits in birds. If birds were given food while they were looking over their shoulders, then they would think that the act of looking over their shoulders had caused the food to be served. After this they would keep looking over their shoulders, even if they didnt get food, but if in the rare chance they were looking over their shoulders and food was given again - they would be even more convinced of their actions.
I think the experience quoted above has more to do with conditioning of the mind.. And has no relation with the initial post... Since the initial posts says that the tendency to look for God is natural.
A similar experience regarding the conditioning was done with dogs... Each time a bunch of dog were fed, a Bell was rang to call them... After some weeks, just ringing the Bell alone was inducing salivation of the dogs, even if no food was given to them. This is a generic conditioning example.
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I think the experience quoted above has more to do with conditioning of the mind.. And has no relation with the initial post... Since the initial posts says that the tendency to look for God is natural.
A similar experience regarding the conditioning was done with dogs... Each time a bunch of dog were fed, a Bell was rang to call them... After some weeks, just ringing the Bell alone was inducing salivation of the dogs, even if no food was given to them. This is a generic conditioning example.
No, the experiment was to show that animals (and by extension humans) will look for meaning and higher cause in anything that occurs. Also, Pavlov's experiment on dogs is similar, but not the same. Pavlov showed how he could trigger any response using external stimuli, even if the stimuli had nothing to do with whatever the dog was being offered. Conditioning is a response to external an external stimulus. The birds were attempting to influence the dispensing of the food not the other way around - not like the dogs.
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No, the experiment was to show that animals (and by extension humans) will look for meaning and higher cause in anything that occurs. Also, Pavlov's experiment on dogs is similar, but not the same. Pavlov showed how he could trigger any response using external stimuli, even if the stimuli had nothing to do with whatever the dog was being offered. Conditioning is a response to external an external stimulus. The birds were attempting to influence the dispensing of the food not the other way around - not like the dogs.
Okay... my misunderstanding then... thnx for clarifying... peace
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Sounds about right, the gene for believing in religion is most likely a very effective propagator.