Creation Moment 12/9/2016 - The Children Know

And said, Verily I say unto you,

Except ye be converted, and become as little children,

ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:3

"According to the Bible, the truth of there being a Creator God is self-evident. Hence, the Bible begins, not with any argument for God’s existence, but simply an assertion that ‘God is’ and ‘He created’ (Genesis 1). Similarly, the apostle Paul taught that the reality of God is clearly perceived in the world around us (Romans 1:18–20).

Unsurprisingly, studies have shown that children have a natural tendency to believe this. A report by Dartmouth Medical School (USA) concluded that “Human beings are biologically primed to seek

moral and spiritual meaning” and children’s “capacity and desire for spiritual experience are, to some degree, hard-wired.” According to Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at Oxford University’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, young children have faith even when they have not been taught about God by the family or at school. Even those who grew up alone on a desert island would come to believe in God, he suggests.

Scientists noted two very specific views, held instinctively, which help explain why children have a natural tendency to believe in creation.
*The first is that different kinds of plants and animals are distinct

from one another and that one kind will not change into another. *The second is that everything in nature has been designed for a purpose. Significantly, these views are equally common in children from religious and non-religious backgrounds." CMI