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A new study in Journal of Personality shows that selfless and social behavior is not purely a product of environment, specifically religious environment. After studying the behavior of adult twins, researchers found that, while altruistic behavior and religiousness tended to appear together, the correlation was due to both environmental and genetic factors.
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| Absolutely a delicate balance between nature and nurture. |
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I'm not surprised. If morality and religion have anything to do with one another, I'd say the morality of an individual is what makes them choose their beliefs. It's certainly not the other way around. 
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Easier not to judge. There's so many variables and one can just never know the truth. Eugenics was big during the turn of the 20th century. People felt they had a right to determine breeding stock etc. Lent itself to Hitler's Germany. He was not alone with his eugenics programs.
You would think they'd start with proper nurture. Besides, in a world of imperfection: Perfect is enemy of Good. |
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| Frankenkitty999 wrote: |
| Eugenics was big during the turn of the 20th century. |
Was big? Eugenics is where we got the SAT test, the ASFAB test, and the IQ test, just to name a few. Eugenics also gave us the human genome project. Good? Bad? You decide. It is certainly a part of our current culture.
Now, that nurture thing? Check out some of the experiments that behaviorists have done in the past. |
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| Nesaie wrote: |
I'm not surprised. If morality and religion have anything to do with one another, I'd say the morality of an individual is what makes them choose their beliefs. It's certainly not the other way around.
How the heck did I miss this one? |
Some of us may have the god gene 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_gene |
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| Frankenkitty999 wrote: |
Easier not to judge. There's so many variables and one can just never know the truth. Eugenics was big during the turn of the 20th century. People felt they had a right to determine breeding stock etc. Lent itself to Hitler's Germany. He was not alone with his eugenics programs.
You would think they'd start with proper nurture. Besides, in a world of imperfection: Perfect is enemy of Good. |
Did I read somewhere that bloodlines figured into the MKULTRA
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They were all nuts.
Doesn't matter at all what they thought, or tried to accomplish. God is greater.
That's why eugenics doesn't work.
God can put the troublesome genes to good use as well. |
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