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No one teaches a newborn human to breath. No one teaches them to cry, to suckle, to eat, sleep, or eliminate the waste products from their body. These things are innate. Genetic memory, if you will.

Why then must a human child need to be taught that there is an all powerful entity which is the creator of their very existence? If such a thing was true, would that not be innate knowledge as well?

Bn4fE5 6 Dec 22
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Not necessarily. Bodily functions may be innate. But questions of science versus mythology must be researched.

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There's a difference between "know-how" knowledge and "know-that" knowledge. The examples given in the original post were of "know-how" knowledge, while theists make a "know-that" claim. I don't see why one should suppose any connection between the two.

@Bn4fE5 Ha!! I meant it as a serious attempt--and I do think it's correct.

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Actually , the reason a new born cries , is because the doctor spanks it , to start the breathing , although in some cases , they massage it . They also have to remove what are essentially plugs in the infant's nose , which are there to keep the infant from breathing in fluid , while it's still inside it's mother . And a newborn's breathing isn't always regular .

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We are not completely aware of what life has caused us to unlearn. Becoming aware is an ongoing process just as is figuring out how much life has caused us to accept conformity's beliefs. No matter how smart we are and how introspective we are, we still live in a state of confusion - in varying degrees. We either go along with it all or double over to resist it. That is Stage 1 and 2. Stage 3 is when we get comfortable with it all and know and accept who we are in this ongoing process of becoming aware in reference to everything including our take on the infinite.

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it is true that a Alpha Centauri is part of a binary star system but it still has to be taught.

we aren't born knowing everything that's true.

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See the work of Serge Aroles and feral children.

Nature plays a large part in our development

It doesn’t end well for most 😔

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Part of the medulla does this ancient hind brain

bobwjr Level 10 Dec 22, 2019
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But it's not true

bobwjr Level 10 Dec 22, 2019

@Bn4fE5 the things you talk about are from the medulla hard wired for survival instinct not esoteric thought

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Yet if we are made by evolution, then since evolution by natural selection has no foresight, it can not equip us therefore, for the consequences of any technology or arts we may create for ourselves. So that when the genetic ground work for language was laid down, and we then went on to create languages and cultures, there could be no genetic tools in place for dealing with the consequences. ( For example, the fact that with agriculture, we can eat far more than is good for us. ) But the most important of these, is, that we could not be pre-equipped to deal with the vastly increased capacity we have gained, for creating fictions and lies, that language and culture have given us. So that if people start to propagate stories about flying unicorns, Loch Ness monsters or sky daddies, we could have no genetic defenses built in.

Or maybe it is good that nature created us very gullible, and we should believe everything we are told.

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Not if 'god' was more subtle than that, perhaps a 'universal consciousness' not much different from other impersonal laws of nature like electromagnetism or the speed of light.
Something like that would have to be learned and respected as a 'force' which, like gravity or heat, defines the limits of our freedom, beyond which we encounter resistance.

May the Force be with you.

@RiverRick And with you.

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It is innate to most human beings. That is why it exists. This started with primitive man long before our time.

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