PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa, Psychology Today, Intelligent Design
16 Sep 2013
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Each person is unique shuffle of genetic deck: every person has different personal history. Bedrock similarities = evolutionary psychology: human nature. What is it: result of competitive selection hostility towards darwinian approach. Natural selection plays the role once attributed to desire, the fact that it doesn"t have an agenda is difficult for people to understand. Getting your selection of genes into the next generation. Theory one of the best arguments against evolution is the argument that it"s only a theory that is wrong. A theory has a formal statuses, they are elegant, based on empirical fact, generate hypothesis, which can be tested. Zero way to ever discredit intelligent design, but evolution can be discredited. Creating science is not science, you cannot disprove it do not debate. If you accept evolution, if you accept darwin, you throw out god, you throw out morality. Fear from religious side of debate, scared that there will no morality.
