The Science of Personality Development

In the text, Intelligent Design of Personality I make, I believe, a strong and definitive case that personality development is more a science then an art form. In particular, as referenced against the characteristics of science accepted in U.S. law from the 1982 court decision, McLean vs Arkansas Board of Education, my theory of personality development justifies itself on all accounts. The essential characteristics of science are: 1) It is guided by [physical or biological] law; 2) It has to be explanatory by reference to natural law; 3) It is testable against the empirical world; 4) Its conclusions are tentative, are not necessarily the final word; and 5) It is falsifiable[or, more accurately, makes predictions that can be tested by observation], The new theory developed in Intelligent Design of Personality, firstly, uses Natural Law, those “unchanging moral principles common to all human beings” Oxford Dictionary, 1998, as it’s foundation. Secondly, the theory uses many biological processes such as homeostasis, reflexes, imprinting and the Pleasure Selection Principle,i.e. that an organism has the tendency to repeat any activity from which it derives pleasure, all of which are governed by Natural Law, as fundamental support for the natural personality theory. Thirdly, I reveal how organized and purposeful these biological processes are at arriving at their universal objective, the production of a moral human being. Fourthly, I explain, with many examples, how testable, predictable and definitive the theory is against the empirical world. Lastly, it is readily accepted that the theory is tentative, i.e. that it will be improved upon in the future and that it is falsifiable not only by observation but would stand the scrutiny of the laboratory on all accounts. The Natural Personality theory, essentially, views evolution as a stepping stone to the realization that there is enormous order and organization imposed upon the human spirit above and beyond the relatively small but steady input of evolution. In essence, evolution is the track upon which the far more complex total design of the human spirit runs. Evolution is the first rung of the ladder, the intelligent design is the ladder itself. The proof of the existence of universal morality in man is the real, obvious and recognized existence of Natural Law.