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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2139776" data-attributes="member: 18549">Ahh, the nature vs. nurture fallacy...The person is able to do X because genetic encoding in the DNA predisposes that person to be able to learn to do X, and would not be able to learn to do X if the DNA had not provided the instructions that allow the person to learn to do X.  The person may be more or less well-equipped to learn to do X than the next person over, and this is a consequence of the genetic bias.  However, in the absence of some sort of training, all the natural talent in the world won't prepare anyone to do X.I can speak because my DNA encodes language faculties, which are completely useless unless I'm exposed to language for the first few years of my life.  I have an immune system that is hardwired to respond to my environment by learning response mechanisms to pathogens that are introduced into my body, some of which have never been encountered by any other human being ever.Nature vs. nurture is a false paradigm, although it makes for lots of convenient padding for the "letters to the editor" page of social science journals.</blockquote>