Dawah and VFX: Essentially Incorrect

APOLOGIES FOR THE TERRIBLE QUALITY! And thank you if you get through it. (I have a better cam on order!)

This is a quick answer to the current move by YT theists to invoke 'Psychologists say we know about the supernatural world from birth so that's proof of God.' This is, of course, rubbish.

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A selection of refs (really, I could go on forever):-

Books
Dundes, A., 'Wet and Dry, the Evil Eye: An Essay in Indo-European and Semitic worldview.' in The Evil Eye: A Casebook, ed. Dundes, A. (The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992), pp. 257-321.

Frazer, J. G., The Golden Bough (Touchstone Press, New York, 1999).

Gellman, Susan A., The Essential Child: Originsof Essentialism in Everyday Thought (Oxfrod: Oxford University Press)

Hood, B. M., Supersense: Why we Believe the Unbelievable (Harper Collins, San Francisco, 2009).

Lewis-Williams, D., Pearce D., Inside the Neolithic Mind: Conciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods (London: Thames & Hudson, 2009)

Menninghaus, W., Disgust: Theory and History of a Strong Sensation (State University of New York Press, Albany, 2003).

Miller, S. B., Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion (The Analytical Press, London, 2004).

Miller, W. I., The Anatomy of Disgust (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1997).

Pennington, D. C., Social Cognition, (London: Routledge, 2000)

Piaget, J., The Construction of Reality in the Child (Basic Books, 1954)

Poulan-Dubois, D., "Infants' Distinctions Between Animate and Inanimate Objects: The Origins of Naïve Psychology" in P. Rochat (ed), Early Social Cognition, Understanding Others in the First Months of Life (London: Erlbaum, 1999)

Rachman, S., Fear of Contamination: Assesment and Treatment (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).

Rozin, P., Neremoff, C., "The laws of Sympathetic Magic: A psychological Analysis of Similarity and Cognition, in J. Stigler, G.Herdt (ed) Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).

Williams, Nathan L., Connolly, K. M., Cisler, J.M., Elwood, L. S., Willems, J. L., Lohr, J. M., "Disgust: A Cognitive Approach" in Disgust and its Disorders: Theory, Assesment, and Treatment Implications, ed. Olatunji, B. O. & McKay, D. (American Psychological Association, Washington DC, 2009), pp. 57-74.

Journal Articles
Ahn, W. "The role of Causal status in determining feature centrality", Cognition, 27, (1998) pp.135-178.

- "Effect of Causal structure on category construction", Memory and Cognition, 27, (1999), pp.1008-1023.

Berring, J.M., "The Folk Psychology of Souls", The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, (2006), PP.453-498.

Berring, J.M., Bjorkland, D.F., "The Natural Emergence of Reasoning About the Afterlife as a Developmental Regularity", Developmental Psychology,40, (2005), pp.179-186.

Borg, S. J., Lieberman, D. & Kiehl, K. A., "Infection, Incest, and Iniquity: Investigating the Neural Corrolates of Disgust and Morality." Journal of Cognitive Neurosceinces Vol 20, No. 9, (2008), pp.1529-1546.

French, C.C, Paranormal belief, manic-depressiveness, and magical ideation: a replication, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 18, Issue 2, (1995), pp.291-292.

Haidt, J., Rozin, P., McCauley, P. & Imada, S., "Body, Psyche, and Culture: The Relationship between Disgust and Morality." Psychology and Developing Societies Vol. 9, (1997), pp.107-131.

Hardingm J.R., "The Case of the Haunted Scrotum," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 89 (1996), p.600.

Haslam, N., "Natural Kinds, Human Kinds, and Essentialism", Social Research, 65, (1998), pp.291-314.

Kelemen, D., "Are Children 'Intuitive Theists'?". Psychological Science, 15, (2004, pp. 295-301).

Rachman, S., "Pollution of the Mind." Behaviour Research and Therapy Vol. 32, (1994), pp.311-14.

Rips, L.J.,, Blok S., Newman G., "Traccing the Identity of Objects", Psychological Review, 113, (2006), p.1-13

Rozin, P., Markwith, M. & Nemeroff, C., "Magical Contagion Beliefs and Fear of AIDS." Journal of Applied Psychology Vol. 22, (1992), pp.1081-92.

Rozin, P., Millman L & Nemeroff, C., "Operation of the Laws of Sympathetic Magic in Disgust and Other Domains." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Vol. 50, (1986), pp.703-712.

Scherer, K. R., "The Role of Culture in Emotion-Antecedent Appraisal." Journal or Personality Disorder Vol. 18, (2005), pp.803-817.

Tolin, D. F., Worhunsky, P., Maltby, N., "Sympathetic Magic in contamination-related OCD." Journal of Behavioural Therapy and Experimantal Psychiatry Vol. 35, (2004), pp.193-250.

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[DawahFilms]

"Psychologists say we know about the supernatural world from birth so that's proof of God.'"

Well, it's good I never actually said this or promoted this view. Knocking down strawmen is always fun, however.

[mrgodbehere]

@DawahFilms What does the gon go like. Oh yes yes "You're so vain, you probably thing this vid is (entirely) about you." Please try harder.

[dialingfordonuts]

You're going to convince a pair of narcissists they're wrong in their awesomeness? With mere cited studies? Good luck with that.

One day they'll be a steely-eyed mullah and poofy-haired preacher, dispensing misery on others by fiat. The way their swollen egos... errr, GOD wants it.

[mrgodbehere]

@dialingfordonuts I know, it's a fools errend. Wrose still, I'm gonna do it again soon with more info. Well: its not really for those two fine intellectuals (by fine I mean pathetic-and by intellectuals I mean asshats) anyway.

[TadRaunch]

100 quid for wearing Hitler's coat? Where can I sign up!

[swinewarrior]

@DawahFilms you seem to have learned nothing in Malaysia ask

about the frogs

cant go on your vids as you blocked me because you belong to

the religion of peace and understanding it shows

you were cooler when you were a christian fanatic

happy new year

[DawahFilms]

@mrgodbehere

Your response simple reaffirms my point.

Here's some extra matches and straw. Go have fun.

[mrgodbehere]

@DawahFilms Don't call me Son. You keep saying patronizing self-aggrandizing crap like that to people and are laughed at by pretty much everyone I know of for it.

You have no idea who or what I am, or what I am capable of. YT is not where I fight my battles. I do that in the real world, with real academics. YT is where I relax back into neutral.

[DawahFilms]

@mrgodbehere

"I dream he will lock horns with me on my turf"

Son, you wouldn't last 5 min.

[dialingfordonuts]

@mrgodbehere Good on you for doing this, it's much appreciated.

They're usually aware and responsive to the snark and eyerolls from the rest of us. But, stuff like this... as any peekaboo playing child knows in his bones, if it disappears from sight, it doesn't exist. Our god-given intuitions are such a blessing.