Evolution vs. Insanity

[elfs]

By putting cameras into babies' bedrooms, boffins have been able to determine that even infants are capable of practicing deceit. The capacity to fake cries or laughter in order to get attention emerges as early as six months. This isn't as surprising at it seems to some: children are cause and effect machines, learning about the world by doing something and seeing what happens. This is just one more capability, an interesting one, but hardly shocking.

So you have to admire the fundy headline Children: Sinful By Nature, which is such a weird composition of worldviews that it doesn't even begin to add up. I mean, how can "sin" be "natural?" Doesn't it have a supernatural origin to begin with? And isn't it sad to see the "we're all filthy beggars from birth" attitude expressed in all its ugliness?

Color me perplexed.