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Sunday, May 09, 2010

The Knowledge of Good and Evil

I'm not a big fan of "psychology" as most of it is pseudo-science. Nonetheless, I found this article to be quite interesting.

Babies know the difference between good and evil at six months, study reveals

"At the age of six months babies can barely sit up - let along take their first tottering steps, crawl or talk.

But, according to psychologists, they have already developed a sense of moral code - and can tell the difference between good and evil.

An astonishing series of experiments is challenging the views of many psychologists and social scientists that human beings are born as 'blank slates' - and that our morality is shaped by our parents and experiences."
In one fell swoop, this study refutes Arminianism, Pelagianism, and one common theory of "atheistic morality", not to mention what it does to the popular yet unbiblical evangelical doctrine of "the age of accountability".  Now that the "blank slate" nonsense has been challenged, psychology might actually be able to make some meaningful progress in the study of human behavior.

4 comments:

Mike Erich the Mad Theologian said...

I suspect that these groups will regroup and either deny the findings or find a way to work around them, but it is a interesting finding.

Carol Noren Johnson said...

I agree about a lot of psychology, unless it is biblical. Since I am working on working on a degree in nouthetic counseling, what is the source of that data?

Puritan Lad said...

Nouthetic counseling is the way to go. Sola Scriptura.

jazzycat said...

Romans 2:15 tells us that. This passage is not referring to just the more powerful work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration, but to something that all human beings receive...........