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The theory of sociobiology |
–theapplication of evolutionary theory to the study of behavior |
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Analtruistic act is |
–anybehavior that benefits another individual at the expense of or risk to the oneperforming the behavior |
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Many who accept some form ofcreation by God consider |
–thecreation of humanity and morality to have been a separate and special act fromother acts of creation |
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sociobiology an answer to |
Atrulism. Osborne. |
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Inclusive fitness |
•whichrefers to the rate at which an animal’s own offspring and its close relatives’ offspringare successfullyreared and reproduce |
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–Sociobiologytheorypredicts that |
•Becauseofthis sharing of genes between relatives,•Altruisticbehaviorshould exist only in situations in which the altruisticindividual would actually increaseits inclusive fitnessby that behavior |
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Natural selection in this situation is called |
Kin Selection |
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Onecorollary of sociobiology theory |
no truly atrulistic behavior |
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Sociobiology: |
alt. to religion. –Insociobiology theory, right or wrong behavior does not exist in a moral sense,only different behavioral strategies with effects on inclusive fitness |
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–Wilsonopenly challenges Christian faith by offering a substitute belief system basedupon scientific materialism |
•Thecontent of religious belief is false•Scientificmaterialism is itself a mythology defined in the noble sense |
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Onemustrecognize that evidence does exist for genetic control of behavior |
In non human animals |
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Concept of right and wrong forChristians are understood as |
a moral code |
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•Note– would this imply that conversion fixes the genes? |
•Partof human character reflects this change, and that has emphasized the selfishside of human nature |
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Thebasic process of kin selection and its effect on inclusive fitness has operatedonly within |
–humansand within other created groups of organisms |
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Humankind |
–Notbiologically destined–Hasa measure of free will to seek the ability from God to act in ways that aretruly altruistic and not just the result of gene modification and biologicaldetermination |
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•An interventionistview of sociobiology |
–Accordingto the interventionist theory, the original animals had thegreatest level of complexity in their behavior, and the interspecific andintraspecific interactions between organisms were the most finely tuned andharmonious at the beginning of life on earth protection from mutation |
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–Naturalselectionand, especially, kin, selection have acted to slow this breakdown |
•Whenmutations begintocause the loss of some of the original created behavior patterns, naturalselection would determine whether the original type or mutated type wouldbecome the most common |
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Anintelligentand benevolent Designer could choose to invent an ecological system with abalance of nature based on |
Harmony not competition |
