Unlearning what you know

Last night our church hosted a "Raising Boys" talk by Steve Biddulph and it was good. Really good.

Steve started the presentation by saying how parenting has been going on since the dawn of humanity and, normally, they are fairly good at getting the job done.
Parents, supported by a large number of others, raise their kids into productive adults.

Using this as a platform, Steve said that the usual parenting answer is already known. Usually your gut is correct. But due to the industrial revolution causing a instinctual-parental disconnect, we live in a time where we question this primitive voice.

I a similar thing occurs with belief in God. Small kids are quite comfortable with theism. In scripture, if you invite a year 1 kid to talk to God they are more open and accepting than in year 4 or 5. As they get older they "loose" this underlying awareness of something bigger then themselves.

Culture, upbringing, something deprograms this inherent knowledge.

Perhaps, similar to parenting, we need to place the expert-driven, modern skepticism in perspective and check what our gut thinks.