• 5 years ago
An updated version of the video I made in response to DawahFilms/Kevin/Ali/Asadullah Jan 2016
He claimed that humans have an innate belief regarding gods and uses dishonest tactics to make it look like this is true - and I show it is not. He brings fakes, I bring facts.

Sources:
Previous, longer version "Fitrah, DawahFilms and Science
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5qhm85

Innate belief
The Eternal Challenge - A Journey Through the Miraculous Quran.pdf

Humans
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/tools

WSJ innate/not innate
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304222504575173890997846742
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304198004575172233981688208

The childish beliefs of Dr Justin Barrett
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2009/01/childish-beliefs-of-dr-justin-barrett.html

Barrett replies
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/nov/29/religion-children

Videos of his vague speeches
http://www.faraday.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/Speakers.php
http://veritas.org/talks/why-would-anyone-believe-god/?view=presenters&speaker_id=2462

Petrovich
http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/olivera-petrovich

Book published
http://om-online-classroom.blogspot.com

Dishonest argumentation
http://www.aboutatheism.net/articles/zjggfhu-humans-may-be-primed-to-believe-in-creation.cfm
http://www.aboutatheism.net/articles/tbvhvax-infants-have-natural-belief-in-god.cfm

Dr. Petrovich email
http://blogs.theage.com.au/thereligiouswrite/archives/2008/07/in_the_beginnin.html

Empiricism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

Counterarticle
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/30/5949421/are-kids-born-with-an-innate-belief-in-god
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/religious-children-struggle-separate-fact-fiction\

Pushback
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/nov/29/religion-children

Counterstudy
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12138/citedby


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Allah, Al-Masjid al-Haram, Almighty, arab, atheism, Atheist, Bible, Christian, Creation, Creator, Dawah, debate, Education, Fitrah, God, Haram, iERA, Islam,