Everything, they say, is solely a result of evolutionary changes - all creatures pre-programmed with a mechanism that seeks constantly to improve itself through genetic mutation and evolution. In such a world, all changes are put down to "evolutionary advantage".
So, what are the evolutionary advantages of the rampant obesity, wanton drunkenness, drug taking, cigarette smoking, serial adultery, prostitution, people trafficking, gangland killings, cash crops, terrorism, war and other destructive and self-destructive behaviours so prevalent in the world today?
Atheist evolutionists often point to theists and say - "well if God is perfect, why did He make people imperfect?" I'd like to pose that question back to the atheists for a moment - not because we don't have an answer - we do have one - but how is it that this intrinsically self-correcting evolutionary process has gone so wrong? If we are subject to a mechanism by which all living things strive for perfection, why are people now as they are?
Why are human beings so decadent and self-indulgent that in spite of having devised fantastic theories such as evolutionary science and even making scientific claims to the effect that "science has eradicated the need for a creator God," we are in grave danger of destroying the planet we live on?
Why are we in the "developed world" eating ourselves to death? Sure - evolutionists can point to evolution and say we have evolved to survive in famine conditions, but we have not always had massive obesity problems - are we now going backwards instead of forwards? I'm sure they'll try to put it down to having such efficient access to food now that we never need to go hungry, but why haven't we evolved a solution to our overeating? Is that mutation still to come? Can we be sure it will arrive in time?
We've been killing each other through war since history began - the last century produced the biggest wars and revolutions ever seen, with people being slaughtered on an astronomical scale. Why haven't we yet evolved a solution to war? Why have the numbers of casualties of war steadily increased?
And why haven't we yet evolved a fairer world? Is consumer capitalism really the best we can do? Is it really efficient to let half the world starve while the other half eats itself to death? It really doesn't take a genius to work out the solution to that little problem. (People usually put it down to greed - oh, so they do have sin then, after all?)
Atheist evolutionists might argue that evolution has not yet had time to evolve solutions to all our problems, but why hasn't evolution yet evolved a solution to this shortcoming within its own mechanism - namely that evolution takes vast amounts of time? Couldn't that problem have been ironed out by now? And, crucially, why can't we simply put into practice the knowledge we already have?
We know that if we eat too much, it kills us. We know that if we smoke cigarettes or take heroin it kills us, so why can't we put our amazingly evolved brains into action and just not do it? We have the knowledge, why are we so willful in our refusal to use it? Why do we abuse ourselves ever more? Are we complacent in the knowledge that medical science will probably be able to patch us up and even if it doesn't, we've got to die of something, so who cares? OK - I'll be blunt - why are we so stupid? I'll also point something interesting out - it isn't just uneducated or supposedly unintelligent people who indulge themselves to death.
So, are we actually quite a poor design - one that is destined for failure? Are we doomed to suicidal decadence? Is evolution actually a self-destructive mechanism when all is said and done, designed to destroy the very creatures it has allegedly been perfecting? And if we can do nothing to halt our own demise, can we really be so sure that our scientific theories are so perfect? As a species, we could hardly be described as a great success right now.
We need to be very careful about what we attempt to destroy. It is one thing to destroy the planet and everything on it, but once we declare (as the Neitzschians are so keen on doing) that "God is dead," we have no excuses - we are on our own.
Atheist evolutionists might argue that evolution has not yet had time to evolve solutions to all our problems, but why hasn't evolution yet evolved a solution to this shortcoming within its own mechanism - namely that evolution takes vast amounts of time? Couldn't that problem have been ironed out by now? And, crucially, why can't we simply put into practice the knowledge we already have?
We know that if we eat too much, it kills us. We know that if we smoke cigarettes or take heroin it kills us, so why can't we put our amazingly evolved brains into action and just not do it? We have the knowledge, why are we so willful in our refusal to use it? Why do we abuse ourselves ever more? Are we complacent in the knowledge that medical science will probably be able to patch us up and even if it doesn't, we've got to die of something, so who cares? OK - I'll be blunt - why are we so stupid? I'll also point something interesting out - it isn't just uneducated or supposedly unintelligent people who indulge themselves to death.
So, are we actually quite a poor design - one that is destined for failure? Are we doomed to suicidal decadence? Is evolution actually a self-destructive mechanism when all is said and done, designed to destroy the very creatures it has allegedly been perfecting? And if we can do nothing to halt our own demise, can we really be so sure that our scientific theories are so perfect? As a species, we could hardly be described as a great success right now.
We need to be very careful about what we attempt to destroy. It is one thing to destroy the planet and everything on it, but once we declare (as the Neitzschians are so keen on doing) that "God is dead," we have no excuses - we are on our own.
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