KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL

Sorry, it wasn't your parents, or teachers or environment. You knew the difference between good and evil when you were just a baby, 6 months old.

These new studies refute the notion of psychologists and social scientists that

all we know comes from teaching, training and experience. But that we are born with the knowledge of good and evil and can tell the difference.

Professor Paul Bloom of Yale University, a student of Morality in infants has found through experiments that glimmers of moral thought, judgement and feeling are present in the first year of life.

Working with puppets, babies have a preference for "good helpful characters" and rejected unhelpful "naughty characters to the point of a smack on the head for the baddies.

Two comments to this article which appeared in www.MailOnLine, May 10,2010 by

David Derbyshire were as follows:

"It is always disappointing to read misapplication of biblical references. Both Adam and Eve knew right from wrong. Paul makes that clear when she[he] says that the "woman was thoroughly deceived. But Adam was not deceived!" You see they both knew it was wrong to disobey. But the serpent lied to Eve; she ate from the tree; Adam comes along and finds out she's eaten from the tree, knows he shouldn't do it, but does it anyway. That is way Paul also says "just as through one man sin entered into the world, so through one man all are being made alive." I mean come on you guys. Get your Bible understanding right.

- Mark Clarion, Granit, 12/5/2010 18:25

"Earthly ways taught by unsuspecting parents serve only to corrupt the beautiful innocence of children.

We have souls, and with that soul comes an identity passed on by whatever that soul has experienced before incarnating on planet earth. I am not religious, but I sincerely believe in my heart that this is so. I also believe that all world religions have this same distinct truth buried deep within them which ultimately binds them all together in common understanding. Our leaders have distorted such hidden truth throughout the ages in order to prevent us from uniting, in order to keep us divided and easier to control.

This article is an early sign that Science appears to be gradually merging with spirituality as it learns to look beyond materiality. This is a very positive thing!

- V, UK, 12/5/2010 15:48

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN