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To: editor-surveyor
Psychology and Darwinism are very similar in fact. Psychology is based on grouping types of behavior statistically and classifying abnormal behavior. Labeling a group of people who exhibit the same behaviors does not really explain anything about why these people are mentally ill however. For example nobody knows what causes autism, so how can anyone say that somebody even has autism, if nobody knows what causes it. How do we know that different cases of "autism" have completely different causes and should therefore be considered completely different diseases? We don't. It's the same problem with ADD. The reason so many kids get diagnosed with ADD is because ADD is not a disease, it is a type of behavior.

Darwinism is also based on a system of classification based on the logical fallacy that animals which appear similar must be related because all species share a common ancestor. Psychology is based on the error that similar behaviors have the same psychological causes. Pychology reduces people to statistics and says that we are all robots responding to stimuli. That's why it is a godless secular religion.

93 posted on 07/14/2012 6:39:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Psychology is the blind man walking barefoot through the glass shop after the earthquake.


95 posted on 07/14/2012 6:59:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“Darwinism is also based on a system of classification based on the logical fallacy that animals which appear similar must be related because all species share a common ancestor”

Then please explain why “New World” vultures and “Old World” vultures appear similar but are not classified as being closely related.

For someone who purports to have studied Biology your statement betrays a fundamental ignorance of even the basics.


97 posted on 07/16/2012 9:21:16 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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