My comment: while the traditionally religious view of human nature is remarkably like the sociobiological view of human nature, eg. human nature is universally and genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, etc., the evolutionary sciences have also found that human nature is ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, because all of these traits, which are still with us, were the most successful in the survival and reproduction of our genes and cultures over time.
St. Thomas also believed that human nature is spiritual, but if we wanted to use the St. Thomas specifications of “evil” and “sin” in terms of falling away from human nature as defined by the evolutionary sciences, that would mean that the liberal-left which opposes both the traditionally religious view of human nature and the the sociobiological view of human nature is sinful and evil.
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