The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
Natural selection is not evolution.
We completely reject the theory of evolution.
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
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