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that children tend toward creationist explanations of natural phenomena. there?' ... Given ambiguous stimuli, we often posit an agency at play." Guthrie suggested that natural selection primed this system for false positives, because if the bump in the night is really a burglar—or a lion—you could
that they may better reflect innate rather than cultural biases, says Kelemen. But recent work suggests that it's not just children: Kelemen and Krista Casler of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylva- nia, found the same tendency to ascribe pur- pose to phenomena like rocks, sand, and lakes
that children tend toward creationist explanations of natural phenomena. there?' ... Given ambiguous stimuli, we often posit an agency at play." Guthrie suggested that natural selection primed this system for false positives, because if the bump in the night is really a burglar—or a lion—you could
that they may better reflect innate rather than cultural biases, says Kelemen. But recent work suggests that it's not just children: Kelemen and Krista Casler of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylva- nia, found the same tendency to ascribe pur- pose to phenomena like rocks, sand, and lakes
that children tend toward creationist explanations of natural phenomena. there?' ... Given ambiguous stimuli, we often posit an agency at play:' Guthrie suggested that natural selection primed this system for false positives, because if the bump in the night is really a burglar—or a lion—you could
that they may better reflect innate rather than cultural biases, says Kelemen. But recent work suggests that it's not just children: Kelemen and Krista Casler of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylva- nia, found the same tendency to ascribe pur- pose to phenomena like rocks, sand, and lakes
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