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ciality, immorality, lack of conscience and awareness rarely to be
seen even in animals. They then offer a supposedly scientific ex-
cuse for their lack of consciousness and will by saying, "We de-
scended from animals, so these traits are our genetic inheritance."

Based on that distorted way of thinking, many Darwinist be-
havioral scientists claim that the reason why human beings com-
mit crimes is the inheritance bequeathed to them from their ani-
mal forebears and still lodged in their "old" or "reptile brain." In
his book Ever Since Darwin, the evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould re-
ports this claim, which was first made by the Italian physician
Cesare Lombroso:
Biological theories of criminality were scarcely new, but
Lombroso gave the argument a novel, evolutionary twist. Born
criminals are not simply deranged or diseased; they are, liter-
ally, throwbacks to a previous evolutionary stage. The heredi-
tary characters of our primitive and apish ancestors remain in
our genetic repertoire. Some unfortunate men are born with an
unusually large number of these ancestral characters. Their be-
havior may have been appropriate in savage societies of the
past; today, we brand it as criminal. We may pity the born
criminal, for he cannot help himself… 37
In other words, Darwinists maintain that such behavior as
killing, the infliction of suffering, theft and conflict are all genetic
inherited from our supposedly ape-like ancestors. Therefore, ac-

cording to this groundless claim, a person's crimes are not attrib-
utable to him at all, and must be excused. As these irrational and
illogical claims show, the Darwinist way of thinking totally disre-
gards our human conscience, willpower and ability to make deci-
sions and judgments, and regards Man as a mindless creature that
behaves just like animals, according to instinct. This twisted con-