The study only looked at 5-6 year olds, so that tends to match up with your experiences. A much more interesting study would be follow ups at, say, 12, 18, and 24, to see whether this tendency persists or ends up being background noise due cognitive changes and exposure to a wider range of ideas.
Cheers, Judah On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:22 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a religion hater, but I'm not quite ready to buy into this one yet. > > When I was a kid, and I was taught religion, there was no conflict between > fantasy and reality...because to me, it was ALL reality. Religion wasn't a > class where I was being taught what the teachers BELIEVED, it was just > another "factual" class where I was learning what DID happen....jesus and > his water to wine and walking on water and crucifixion were matters of > historical fact. So...there was no fantasy vs. reality conflict. > > WHen I got a little older and got exposure to other beliefs, only then did > it become apparent that what I was taught was a belief, not a fact....and > this prompted me to look into what the other believers were saying. > > So far from creating a PROBLEM with fantasy vs. reality, religion for me > was actually a great educator and motivator for me to discover where > reality ended, and fantasy began. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371796 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
