Blog Post #1

I have always found the topic of nature versus nurture very interesting. My father was an alcoholic and I and my two siblings could be poster children for the nurture side of the argument, but each in our own way.  If you think about either side for too long you can quite convince yourself that they are both correct. The Bible teaches that we are all born in sin which gives credence to the side of nature.  However, Scientologists believe that we are all born innocent and our life experiences within the world shape who we become. I think that there is no denying that genetics plays a factor into our intelligence.  However, nature could be overwritten by a mother who did drugs while pregnant.  If the child was born and later had learning disabilities one could conclude that the cause was the influence of the drugs on the fetus. This does not prove causation was the reason only that a cause and effect relationship exists. As time goes on and more studies are done it is becoming ever more evident that both nature and nurture go hand in hand. That is what I think anyway; chalk it up to my hindsight bias. There will always be examples that weigh heavier on one side than the other but these are nothing more than random events.

 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/nature-versus-nurture-revisited.html