Atheists & Agnostics

Warpy

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11. The problem with the "princess Alice" test was that it was done

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 10:20 PM

Aug 2012

by adults. The kids probably didn't buy into an invisible princess who would punish them if they disobeyed but they knew there was a real live adult there who was telling them not to disobey and they knew what adults do to them when they disobey.

That one bugged the hell out of me for that reason. It was a poorly conceived and poorly done study.

Having said that, the other thing they failed to do was connect the phenomenon of "feeling" god to the "third man factor," one of those weird hard wired things that is a survival mechanism but might be closer to the surface and more accessible to believers. Now that study would be interesting to see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Man_factor

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Did we invent God?... [View all] TruthBeTold65 Aug 2012 OP

Yes. nt rrneck Aug 2012 #1

Let's see. Is God a male bipod that looks like us? (Except for the invisible part) Yes, we did. AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2012 #2

People keep claiming to have invented perpetual motion machines, etc. but never produce. dimbear Aug 2012 #3

I think so. Solly Mack Aug 2012 #4

Interesting show. Major cop-out at the end. FiveGoodMen Aug 2012 #5

Once in a while that god in the head is so real it needs to be removed by surgery and dimbear Aug 2012 #6

Grrr! They ALWAYS do that. onager Aug 2012 #9

Versions of God libodem Aug 2012 #7

Absolutely FiveGoodMen Aug 2012 #8

The illusion libodem Aug 2012 #10

The problem with the "princess Alice" test was that it was done Warpy Aug 2012 #11

Sigmund Freud said that man created god. Manifestor_of_Light Aug 2012 #12