Thursday, December 9, 2010

Do Babies have something to teach us?

Do Babies have something to teach us?
I believe Babies have lot to tell us by their actions because their minds are free of indoctrination or influence by parents,society or our educational system.

Their actions represent the most honest and most natural form of human behavior.  The fact that a baby cannot cheat, plan or manipulate gives us an enormous opportunity to study their behavior as a means to better understand the natural world around us in truest of light.

No wonder the great scientist Albert Einstein had once said "Look closely for the actions of the small child, this is where the search for knowledge is the freshest".

The actions of a child if studied can reveal who we really are and what exactly is our relationship with the natural world around us.  It can tell us startling facts that we are not privy to or have no knowledge about.

I shall try to explain my point through simple experiments conducted by renowned Psychologists and scientists around the world.  These experiments were conducted repeatedly again and again and have yielded the same results.

Experiment 1:
Take a baby to the edge of a large cliff with ravines below.  Place it in such a way that it can fall down in the deep ravines below after some crawls. Let the baby crawl to the edge of the cliff on its own.  Do not disturb the baby let it move on its own.  Watch the actions of the baby with a closely observing its every action and every move.

Result:
In most of the cases, the baby either crawled to the edge of the cliff and stopped but did not fall down or it turned and started crawling towards the other direction after reaching the edge of the cliff but never fell down.
Now how did this happen?  Nobody taught the baby about the cliff or the dangers of falling down into the ravines.  Scientists discovered that babies are born with the inner sense of DEPTH Perception.  This is inborn to most higher animals including human babies. 

When the baby reached the edge of the cliff, it was able to automatically perceive danger by perceiving the depth of the ravines. Yes Amazing indeed.  The scientist also noted the change in iris of the eye, slight tightening of nerves of skin an other changes that are related to danger perception in human beings.

For those of you who are bothered about cruelty of this experiment, let me assure you that all safety precautions were taken to not let the baby die by actually falling into the ravines.  Some people repeated this experiment with on wall less terrace of buildings extended with transparent glass floor to fool the baby that it will fall down.  Since the baby couldn't recognize the glass floor, it never stepped on it.  wow...we just discovered that human beings are born with Depth Perception by birth.

Without going into the details, i shall explain in short the other experiments on babies:

1.A baby was allowed to be present in the dark place for small period of time, then a small streak of light was allowed to enter the place, the baby started moving towards light as it is essential for its living.  This proved that babies have inborn Light perception.

2.This is a very cruel experiment.  A head of a baby was held and slowly dipped inside the bucket of water.  No force was applied on the head of the baby.  The scientist observed that the baby tried slowly to push the hand backward.  The scientist observed that babies had air perception. It would move towards area where with oxygen to breathe and would even use physical force to get it.

There are many other experiments of this nature that confirm the facts that
most essential things for living in this planet has already been ingrained and implanted into our system by birth.  Things like depth perception, light perception, air perception are necessary for human survival so they are already present in our system.  Nobody teaches them to us. 

Now my core point here is not to discuss experiments in psychology, neither it is to showcase my bookish knowledge.  It is to ask a humble and honest question on religion and belief of God in light of the knowledge that we have gained above.  My question is very simple.

When all things essential for human survival like depth perception, light perception, air perception are already present in our system by birth, why are the signs of the Lord Almighty not so obvious in Man like one of them?

Why are babies atheist till one teaches them about God, religion, holy books and divine procedures? Why can't we feel the presence of Lord like hunger, thirst or Pain?

Why is religion an accident of birth? Your religion mostly depends on the geographical area of your birth on earth like you would be a Muslim if you were born in Saudi and some other religion if born elsewhere.

Your religious affiliation also depends on the religion of your parents without any exception.  Doesn't it tell us that religion and god are creations of man rather than vice versa?

Doesn't it tell us that the idea of religion and god is not only unnecessary but also unnatural in human survival? This is because a man can live his entire life without ever discovering god or religion.

My only point is why isn't such an important fact which is necessary for our survival and development plainly obvious like others facts of life?
Why should it be taught?

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