Yeah, sorry, that was just a first draft.. I'm working out a better
theory on the secular web forum, under the name DNAinaGoodway. When
it's more complete, I'll post it here.

But you're right, it's not just nature, but nurture as well. Nurture
and nature always work together, interacting and feeding back.

It's similar to language acquisition, we inherit neural "pre-wiring"
for the ability, but how it develops depends on the organism's
environment.

If you go there, please drop a post and help me out. There are many
more contributers on that site than this one.


--- In atheismuk2@..., elizabeth_dehner
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I don't agree with the statement that we "inherit some degree to
> predisposition for spirituality or religiosity" I think we are all
> born as a blank canvass and it is to what circumstances we are
born
> that can have an affect on what we believe/don't believe.
>
>
>
> --- In atheismuk2@..., "pourrientui"
<pourrientui@h...>
> wrote:
> > Just found this, poking around online for non-theistic sites.
I'm
> > not what you might call an atheist, and I'm not in the UK. Born
> and
> > still in Massachusetts, but love how the internet allows global
> > community.
> >
> > My current best understanding of the faith phenom is that we are
> > stuck with it. It appears that we all inherit some degree of
pre-
> > disposition for "spirituality" or "religiosity", or something to
> > that effect that I haven't found a better term for yet. It makes
> > abundent sense that this inheritable ability evolved. It seems
> > reasonable that our various cultures have taken this ability and
> > evolved all the various adaptation of it, all our myriad of
> faiths.
> > In my view, they were just doing the best they could with the
> > information they had at the time. I don't see them devolving
> > anytime soon.
> >
> > Over time, I expect scientific understanding will out-compete
all
> > these other theories (faiths).