School PSY/405 2018.08.06 2 questions

Professor: Here are 2 questions posed to the class: 1) If you believe there is human nature where does it originate? (evolution, God, nurture?) 2) Are there some basic characteristics that all humans in all countries, cultures, religions, share? Response: I am a religious person. I believe God put us here with the right to make our own decisions. There will always be consequences (good and bad) to our actions. That being said, the consequences of what our early ancestors chose to do (for example, setting up a farm in a healthy valley vs. steep mountainous terrain), trickles down, generation after generation. This is a form of evolution. Nurture changes the immediate, which can later affect future generations and how they nurture their own offspring. So in my belief system, God has little to do with how we evolve because we make our own choices which affects everything else. Probably the only basic, universal characteristics that all humans everywhere share is the humanoid form and most internal organs. Everything else varies so largely that they cannot be shared.