Once again, I plead of a philosophy and science forum, separate from philosophy and religion, so that everyone understands the discussions are scientific in nature, not religious. That said the subject of this thread is human nature, and all the problems we manifest when we hold a false belief about creature and human nature.
The false belief is that God created humans as we know humans today, beautiful, thinking creatures, very much like angels. Satan is a fallen angel right? so even when we are bad, we are these angels. This is a false understanding of our nature, and what makes us like humans as we expect them to be, and from there, we make a mess of everything.
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Wolf Trust - Wolf Children
Possibly the most broadly documented wolf children are the two Indian girls, Kamala and Amala. Villagers caught the girls in 1920 in remote countryside west of Calcutta. They had been spotted previously with adult wolves and were found in a wolf den with two wolf cubs. The den was dug up, the mother wolf killed and the girls taken away. J A L Singh, an Anglican missionary, who ran an orphanage, took them in and gave them their names.
Kamala was thought to be five or six years of age and Amala around two years old. They were dishevelled, ate raw meat in the manner of dogs, and howled but could not talk. The were indifferent to temperature - a characteristic of people leading rugged lives - had sharp hearing, good vision in the dark and a strange gleaming look in their eyes.
Kamala and Amala stood and walked on all fours. Kamala was so adept as a quadruped that she could outstrip on four legs anyone on two legs and climb and jump easily. But like many other children of her feral background she never seriously mastered walking upright and resorted to hands and knees when needing to. Amala died the year after she was found. Kamala survived into her teens and managed to learn only some three dozen words.
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