Comments on: That Baby Doesn’t Accept Evolution!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:36:53 +0000

Zar, that’s news to me! I was certainly born an atheist, as I had no god-concept in my head at all until I was 7 or 8 years old. And I was far older than that before I realized people in the modern world honestly believed in such things.

Children don’t spontaneously start believing in deities. They have to be introduced to the idea of them by their respective cultures. That’s why religions work so hard to get them when they’re young. Most children in our culture don’t remain default atheists much past toddlerhood.

By: Zar

Zar — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:29:03 +0000

ACTUALLY, the idea that babies are Born Atheists is not true either. It seems that we are born with an innate instinct towards God.

Even if so, though, don’t you think Atheists should drop the claim that belief in God got started as a means of explaining the world around us, before Science came along. I mean, what proof do you even have of that? I’d say as much as you have proof that babies lack belief in a god or gods. None.

By: Keith Lowell Jensen

Keith Lowell Jensen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:35:47 +0000

@Lagunatic, hang in there and I’m sure both our babies will be surpass even their parents in immoral, monstrous behavior.

@muggle, the theory, which may blow up in my face, is that she’ll become accustomed to a noisy house and be able to sleep through it. It’s more likely than trying to get this particular house quiet. We are a loud people.

By: Stagyar zil Doggo

Stagyar zil Doggo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:08:42 +0000

To be sure, I’m not losing sleep over it.

But it grates. Like having a meal at a favored restaurant spoiled by the stink of someone lighting up at the next table.

By: muggle

muggle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:55:51 +0000

That’s sad, Stag. You worry too much. And I thought I did.

By: Stagyar zil Doggo

Stagyar zil Doggo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:33:03 +0000

@muggle:
Yes.

By: Lagunatic

Lagunatic — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:33:04 +0000

Yes, my kids are currently atheists because my husband and I are.
Teaching them to eat babies, love the gays, and do all the other immoral stuff we do will take time and patience – but I think we’re up to the challenge.

By: muggle

muggle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:58:15 +0000

Seriously, Stagyar. This is what you’re worried about?

And every baby is born an Atheist, thank you very much. I’ve been screaming that Hilary Clinton for years. Probably why I want her to keep her freaking village out of my child.

I don’t know whether I liked this video so much for that or because of the new daddy cuteness. He’s got to learn his voice can wake her. He will.

By: Stagyar zil Doggo

Stagyar zil Doggo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:52:13 +0000

Of Topic:

I’ve been seeing the following three “sponsor ads” repeat on the right pane of your homepage for the last few days:

* Website Hosting

* hookah & shisha

* Batesville Caskets

The middle one is a seller of tobacco products. Just wondering if you’re aware of this, or care.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:15:39 +0000

How can you disagree with this definition? It is the definition of atheism, in the broadest sense: the absence of belief in a deity. Your desire for it to only apply to “conscious rejection” is irrelevant. All that is relevant is how the word is commonly defined, and that common definition does not specifically include your disclaimer.

Children are born atheists because they have no concept of theism or deities — this is a definition of the word, whether you like it or not. Either that atheism is strengthened via education, in which is may become conscious rejection, or it is eliminated by indoctrination.

To deny the meaning of words is to destroy the possibility of rational debate.