Steven Pinker "the idea that we are blank slates, that there is no such thing as human nature, that Evolution did not shape our motives..."

[Cougarbear]

On that level yes. But that does not figure into language. Chemical reactions are universal.

Of course it does. Everything is chemical. According to atheist, we have no conscience. We are just a bunch of atom combining together in chemical reactions sometimes called biology.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

According to atheist, we have no conscience.

What? I see it's make stuff up day, again.

Ironically, it's the religioners who basically say they would have no morlaity, without a magical daddy character to dictate it to them.

 

[Cougarbear]

What? I see it's make stuff up day, again.

Ironically, it's the religioners who basically say they would have no morlaity, without a magical daddy character to dictate it to them.

The Founding Fathers of our great nation came up with a way to base our laws we make in states and local municipalities. It's called the Constitution of the United States of America. That is the supreme law of the Land in which all other laws must be inline with. It's our foundation with the Bill of Rights as our moral compass. We see how lessening free speech by Democrats created a decline in moral values and allowed for anarchy of violence and lawlessness in the streets of major Democrat run cities. We've seen children mutilated because of fear to speak up about the evils of transitioning sex attempts. And, a whole lot more.

Our Godhead has established laws and commandments so that we would live a moral and good life without anarchy. It's those who oppose these laws and commandments that create anarchy and allow for destructive behavior that leads to psychosis of all sorts of mental illnesses. We saw in the 60's this turning of events to where people started to believe "If it feels good, do it." See, the atheist morality has no sure foundation. Your foundation moves as evil takes over good to be way worse than before.

 

[MayorQuimby]

really?

hmm...

Even a simple search stopping on a Wikipedia page would've helped you.

You are a tool if you think Wikipedia is anywhere near an objective, much less authoritative source, on anyting.

Whenever I need to look up some stuff, I will have wikipedia on, as well as another site up, because I usually get very little insight from the former. Wikipedia has failed as a gateway to knowledge.

Cry about this, lefties.

and to think somebody allowed the likes of you near students with special needs? Outrageous.

He actually had something he was trying to tell you. How about you try and be less of a jackass to him? You know, for once?

Pinker has written two technical books that proposed a general theory of language acquisition and applied it to children's learning of verbs. In particular, his work with Alan Prince published in 1989 critiqued the connectionist model of how children acquire the past tense of English verbs, positing that children use default rules, such as adding -ed to make regular forms, sometimes in error, but are obliged to learn irregular forms one by one.

Ooh, wow, look at Pinker. A university professor actually wrote books. This must mean he is totally smart and totally right, and also, anything that's ever been put in a book must never be total bunk, right?

 

[MayorQuimby]

STEVEN PINKER
Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology
at Harvard University

Dear piece of shit:

Do you know what an appeal to authority is?