More nonsense from the practitioners of scientism who pretend to be doing science but end up acting like the emotionally biased, careless thinkers they purport to critique. A study that made the rounds through the TwitFaceBlogosphere last week claimed that religious children can’t distinguish properly between fantasy and reality. The Huffington Post, the Friendly Atheist, RawStory, and the Democratic Underground each chimed in, all with headlines that were some version of Children Exposed to Religion Have Difficulty Telling Truth from Fiction. Of course, that’s not what the study actually shows. It shows that religious children believe religious stories. But more groan-inducing than the study authors’ conclusions is how quickly so many people jumped on the middle-school laugh-at-religion bandwagon, without stopping to, you know, think critically. More: tinyurl/n3s44eu
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 03:38:25 +0000