Conscience Is Innate

"Alison Gopnik describes new experiments in developmental psychology that show everything we think we know about babies is wrong" — To Be a Baby. She explains an experiment "that’s been around for quite awhile but hasn’t been fully appreciated:"

Two-and-a-half-year-olds already recognize the difference between moral principles and conventional principles. You can ask them if it would be okay to hit someone at daycare if everyone said it would be okay, versus asking them whether it would be okay to not hang up your coat in the cubby if everyone said it would be okay. These children say it’s never okay to hit someone, but whether or not you have to put your clothes in the cubby could change from daycare to daycare. They already seem to appreciate the difference between the kinds of morality that comes from empathy and the kind that comes from our conventional rules. From the time they are two, they recognize both are important but in different ways. That’s pretty amazing.

Now read Peter Kreeft's explanation of "one of the only two arguments for the existence of God alluded to in Scripture, the other being the argument from design (both in Romans)" — The Argument from Conscience. You might also be interested in some of these Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God.

[link to article via Arts & Letters Daily]