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Purposeful Stages

Stages of development seem to be a reoccurring theme in the study of psychology. Freud started it all with his Psychosexual stages, and many psychologists seem to follow in step by fitting their theories into the structure of stages; Piaget's stages of cognitive development, Kohlberg's stages of moral development, Allport's development of the proprium and seemingly the most enduring is Erikson's Psychosocial stages of development. I don't bring up these stage theories in order to prove one more accurate or valuable than another. I believe most of them demonstrate obviously common tendencies in behavior and environment of the human growth experience. I raise these theories with interest because the idea of stages of development seems intentional. But intended by whom?
Many people who believe in God seem to discard the ideas offered by evolutionary theory because they feel that they conflict with their belief system. Those who believe in aspects of......

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