Front end loading (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, November 30, 2008, 22:54 (5835 days ago) @ George Jelliss

A. C. Grayling has answered this better and more comprehensively than I can. <&#13;&#10; - I agree with Grayling that the conclusion about children is a stretch. In American Child Psychiatry class it is pointed out that children believe in magic, and don&apos;t have the initial experience to figure out why certain things happen as if by magic. An extreme example is young chidren can get very angry about restrictions, and wish someone injured or dead. If the injury or death then occurs in close proximity in time to the child&apos;s thought, the child thinks he really caused the event, and may need counselling to straighten out the true understanding of what happened. - On the other hand, as I have mentioned in the past, Andrew Newberg&apos;s book, &quot;Why God Won&apos;t Go Away&quot;, tells us of his studies of how the brain responds to religious activities and may enhance them. There appears to be more going on than just chilhood belief in magic.