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To: Dr. Id who wrote (142421)	8/3/2004 2:53:07 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The best studies I have seen on the subject show that the split between nature and nurture is about 50:50. But there is also the a third alternative. That is to say that we are more than the sum of our parts. That somehow how you think and what you want is not purely a matter of effects of environment on some lump of protein goo. Science cannot dispute this. True it cannot also be proved easily, except perhaps via some refute of other reasonable explanations. Implicit to the "nature versus nurture" argument is that there is nothing else to life. Taken to its logical conclusion, it refutes the idea of free will. Though I am not blind to those arguments, I take it on faith that we are more than the sum of our parts and have some free will. >> And to bring the discussion to be relevant to the list... LOL! very clever innuendo, but why do you assume decent genetics for someone who resembles a chimp?