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Originally Posted by Liara Covert  John, (or alien body snatcher, whichever the case may be)
do you assume human nature is neither scientific nor spiritual at the core? |
I don't know that I'm prepared to give an accurate thesis on the science (or lack thereof) of human nature, but my initial, intuitive response is that human beings survived this long because of our wonderful minds.
As one of my professors once said (I'm paraphrasing), "Humans were terrible monkeys. We didn't climb well, we weren't particularly dexterous, and we had no natural weapons."
This does not imply that man's thought processes are inherently "scientific," but rather that they helped him survive. Clearly, human beings are not universally scientific in their logic (examples abound), but we do have the capacity for science -- perhaps it could be said that both the wonder and the curse of human nature is its great adaptability.