--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not convinced at all there is any inherent
> > "need" to believe in some kind of unseen "order," way.
> > Supposedly humans have to be seriously
> > indoctrinated in the idea of a deity because the
> > brain on its own just doesn't want to go there,
> > as it were.
>
> It occurs to me that the ability to test this
> hypothesis exists -- feral children. At least
> 100 children have been documented who were
> brought up completely cut off from human
> contact, raised either by animals or on their
> own in the wild or as the result of abuse and
> being locked in a room with no contact with
> any living human being.
>
> I did a couple of Google searches to see if
> I could find any instance of one of these
> feral kids developing a sense of God or some
> kind of deity on their own, and found nothing.
> But it would be interesting if such a study
> or research existed.
>
> If the theory that God is "hard-wired" into
> our brains is true, one would think that such
> feral kids would develop a sense of God. But
> my short reading of "feral children stories"
> does not suggest that any such thing ever
> happened.
>
Fascinating research paper topic if there is enough info on the kids. The
twins study I mentioned was from a New York Times summary article of about 15
or 20 years ago - so there ought to be some new info out . I'll check online
later today.
