The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker - PART I (part 4) | Текст песни

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PART I (part 4)
The Judeo-Christian theory is based on events narrated in the Bible. We know that the human mind has nothing in common with the minds of animals because the Bible says that humans were created separately. We know that the design of women is based on the design of men because in the second telling of the creation of women Eve was fashioned from the rib of Adam.

Human decisions cannot be the inevitable effects of some cause, we may surmise, because God held Adam and Eve responsible for eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, implying that they could have chosen otherwise.

Women are dominated by men as punishment for Eve's disobedience, and men and women inherit the sinfulness of the first couple.

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