07-10-2002, 12:17 AM
Quote:A longing for the divine is intrinsic in Homo Sapiens. (For all we know, it is innate in squirrels, dandelions, and diamond rings as well.) We approach the Divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.This is an interesting statement. Courses I am involved in right now are dealing with innate and learned behaviours (in a certain species I work with, not humans). They are two different things. This thread really made me think about this in the beginning of this thread and I hesitated with it until now.
What is innate...or instinctive? And what is learned in our "religious" experiences past and present?