{"id":347,"date":"2007-12-15T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=347"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:54:46","slug":"is-intelligent-design-a-cross-cultural-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/helen-de-cruzs-blog\/is-intelligent-design-a-cross-cultural-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Intelligent Design a cross-cultural universal ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I am now co-writing a paper on the cognitive basis of intelligent design, I was wondering if any of you could help me with the following question: according to Deb Kelemen, Margaret Evans, and others the design argument in theology is natural. Young children infer teleology (goal-directedness) not just in artifacts and body-parts but also in things that are not teleological, such as rain (to water plants) or lions (to go in zoos). And it turns out that Alzheimer patients show a re-emerging preference for teleological over mechanistic explanations (see Lombrozo et al. 2007).<\/p>\n<p>But it is not clear from all this whether intuitive teleology equates with intuitive theism. So I was wondering whether religions other than christianity, judaism and islam have something analogous to the design argument as formulated by Paley and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any experiment in non-western settings that replicate Kelemen&#8217;s experimental findings (namely that children intuitively appeal to god as a creator). Although most religions have creation myths, I am interested in whether children from nonwestern cultures are intuitive theists from an early age on.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am now co-writing a paper on the cognitive basis of intelligent design, I was wondering if any of you could help me with the following question: according to Deb Kelemen, Margaret Evans, and others the design argument in theology is natural. 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