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To: Null Dog Ago who wrote (60199)	10/25/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I haven't read very far into The Moral Animal, but E and X have both read it, and can either correct me or elaborate. The book seems to be making a case for those abstract qualities that comprise human nature (loyalty, justice, altruism, empathy) to be genetically based and developed along evolutionary lines in the same way physical characteristics have. They appear in all human "tribes", regardless of the culture, although customs and culture can obscure the common trait. If this is so, then faith as a voluntary act is not the essential ingredient (as you said somewhere)-- it may be that certain organisms are born believers and others not. X has also talked about this hardwiring predetermining someone's ability to "believe".