Evolutionary Ethics and God
Evolutionary ethics attempts to fill in the plot holes between the natural sciences,
philosophy, and the scripture. The idea that genetic, natural, and biological pathways
produces human emotion is an absurd conception. [1] Philosophy and science
cannot, with absolute certainty, produce a concreate answer to why human beings
have the ability to think and are self-aware of their presence in the universe. Humanity
does not act upon animalistic instinct. People have the ability to rationalize, and
control primal behaviors. The God of the Bible does not get enough credit for the
ethics displayed in humanity, which is not a reflection of the moral code and laws
developed by humanity; rather, it is an intrinsic value that is coded into people by the
Creator. [2] Science cannot explain the development of conscience, behavior, and free
will thought. Evolutionary ethics cannot explain, with any certainty, how physical
matter developed into biology matter which in turned developed into conscience
thoughts and emotions. [3] Science use observation and theory to explain things. No
one was alive “millions and billions” of years ago to record the events the universe as
it came into existence. However, there is a book called the Bible that does provide a
detailed explanation of how the universe came into existence, and more importantly,
how and why humanity came into existence.
The existence of a good God changes everything and Christ-followers stand on the
word of God and that it is true and need not have to fill in the “holes” in how the world
came into creation. God has written that people are to trust in the Lord with all of our
hearts and do not lean on your own understanding Prov. 3:5-6.[4] The Biblical account
of creation as written in the Bible is in line with the basic concepts of the Big Bang
Theory, which is creation was caused by a giant explosion from nothing and the
properties of time, space and matter all came into existence at once. Evolutionists
believe in the Big Bang as the start of the universe. i However, to except this theory as
fact you will have to also adopt theories to explain how nothing produces nothing, and
how that nothing became organic, and from the organic matter came rational,
thinking, emotional beings.
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[1] Robert McQuilkin and Paul Copan,
An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking in the
Way of Wisdom.
[Downer’s Grove, IL, IVP Academic]: (2013), p. 180
[2] Ibid, p. 181
[3] James B. Glattfelder, Information
—Consciousness—Reality: How a New
Understanding of the Universe Can Help Answer Age-Old Questions of Existence
.
[Germany: Springer International Publishing]: (2019),
[4] Unless otherwise noted all Biblical scriptures are from the English Standard
Version.
