Evolutionism and Mothers' Love
by Cowboy Bob Sorensen
Although molecules-to-mother evolution is supposedly purposeless and naturalistic, its adherents engage in materialistic reductionism; traits must have functions and humans are modified animals. However, the religious aspect of evolutionism is inconsistent, incoherent and unlivable.
As I was commencing to write up this here post, the missus was expressing her joy about the rare visit of the rose-breasted grosbeak near our bird feeder. Evolutionists cannot explain beauty, much less explain joy other than using their boilerplate "it evolved" nonsense. The origins and functions they present are strictly the products of imagination, not science.
Why do mothers love their children? An evolutionist can make up a utilitarian explanation, but love does not belong in evolution. After all, we are simply responding to our chemical impulses. Christians (especially biblical creationists) know that we are created in God's image and he gave us the capacity for love. He also gave us joy, beauty, and a host of other things that enrich our lives.
Something else that doesn't fit the evolutionary paradigm is the way people respond in a crisis. For example, folks from Samaritan's Purse mounted up and rode (well, figuratively) into New York City to set up and provide medical help for COVID-19 victims. Bigots rejected them for being Bible-believing Christians, but the fact remains that they were putting themselves in harm's way. Many people were offering their services and expertise at great personal risk. A consistent evolutionist would say to let them die and appeal to survival of the fittest.
Whether a pandemic, natural disaster, the need for love and compassion, or something else, it is only the biblical worldview that has the necessary preconditions for human experience. Now I'm going to turn you over to Dr. Albert Moher, whose podcast The Briefing inspired this article. You can read the transcript, download, or listen online (if you click on "PART III" at his site, it begins play at the part we're talking about). So here's your link: "PART III Why Do Humans Love and Care for One Another? And Is There a Purpose Behind the Coronavirus? Examining an Evolutionary Perspective on COVID-19".
Although molecules-to-mother evolution is supposedly purposeless and naturalistic, its adherents engage in materialistic reductionism; traits must have functions and humans are modified animals. However, the religious aspect of evolutionism is inconsistent, incoherent and unlivable.
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| Mother and Two Children, Mary Cassat, 1906 |
Why do mothers love their children? An evolutionist can make up a utilitarian explanation, but love does not belong in evolution. After all, we are simply responding to our chemical impulses. Christians (especially biblical creationists) know that we are created in God's image and he gave us the capacity for love. He also gave us joy, beauty, and a host of other things that enrich our lives.
Something else that doesn't fit the evolutionary paradigm is the way people respond in a crisis. For example, folks from Samaritan's Purse mounted up and rode (well, figuratively) into New York City to set up and provide medical help for COVID-19 victims. Bigots rejected them for being Bible-believing Christians, but the fact remains that they were putting themselves in harm's way. Many people were offering their services and expertise at great personal risk. A consistent evolutionist would say to let them die and appeal to survival of the fittest.
Whether a pandemic, natural disaster, the need for love and compassion, or something else, it is only the biblical worldview that has the necessary preconditions for human experience. Now I'm going to turn you over to Dr. Albert Moher, whose podcast The Briefing inspired this article. You can read the transcript, download, or listen online (if you click on "PART III" at his site, it begins play at the part we're talking about). So here's your link: "PART III Why Do Humans Love and Care for One Another? And Is There a Purpose Behind the Coronavirus? Examining an Evolutionary Perspective on COVID-19".