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. . . Some theologians -- and significant number of laypersons -- argue that people are not naturally good, so tht without God, human beings would be according to Thomas Hobbes’s grim prediction that in the absence of an over-bearing (albeit secular) “Leviathan” to keep us in line, Homo sapiens would experience lives that are “nasty, poor, brutish, and short.” Others maintain that in view of the fundamental selfishness of natural selection, the very fact that most human beings remain decent, ethical, and morl in itself an argument for the existence of a deity. Yet others follow the lead of evolutionary biologists in pointing to a variety of altogether natural, selective pressures that seem likely to induce people to behave in ways that appear altruistic -- but which, at the level of individual genes, are actually selfish nonetheless. ~ Page 309

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