Morality, Atrocities and Evolution
— Cowboy Bob Sorensen Going to make you think about some deeper things today, and linking to three articles. Plus a bonus song at the end. People have criticized creationists for pointing out the fruits of evolutionary thinking. Some have said things like, "Evolution is just biology, nothing more". When I hear something like that I wonder if that person is uninformed, disingenuous or something else. The fact is that ideas have consequences, and evolution is not just biology, geology, cosmology and other things, but a worldview. Evolution is treated like some kind of entity that has goals and makes decisions, which is consistent with its ancient pantheistic pagan roots. Scientists are not dispassionate and totally objective automatons . Using materialistic presuppositions, evolutionary scientists attempt to find the human soul and the source of free will in the brain . But processes of evolution cannot account for logic, the soul, free will — or morality. Making morali