McQuilken and Copan explain that evolutionary ethics is the ethics
developed through evolution to help us "survive and reproduce."[1]The
authors continue by saying that even if it were a truth, the proposed
theory would not have the ability to discount God. God created us with
dignity because we were made in the image of a "good God (Gen 1:26-
27)" rather than products of "mindless, impersonal, valueless, material
forces."[2]Several problems with evolutionary ethics conclude with, “why
trust our beliefs at all if we are just the product of those material,
valueless, mindless processes? If we are simply the products of
naturalistic evolution and wired for survival, then the beliefs we hold are
produced by nonrational forces beyond our control.”[3]According to the
author’s logic, would it be practical to consider rational thinking to justify
personal thoughts and beliefs or consider a higher control?
McQuilkin and Copan go on to explain that “the triune God has granted his
image bearers the elevated place of co-ruling creation with him as priest-
kings (Gen 1:28).”[4]The authors do not overstate the case regarding this
subject. When considering we were made from dust and created to be co-
rulers "to care for creation and to shape culture so that fellow humans
may flourish,” a moral framework solidifies the deity of God.[5]
Evolutionary Ethics is not compatible with belief in God because those
who believe in evolutionary ethics tend to lean on science and biology.
McQuilkin and Copan state, "Our basic moral awareness has a robust
moral framework anchored in a good, loving and just God. Given this
context, we have important resources for making moral judgments and
living wisely in this world. The fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of
wisdom."[6]Those who are evolutionists are the ones who take God for
who we are and make nature and themselves god. In many ways, it takes
more faith to believe in nothingness into something without a creator than
the beautiful and amazing God who created us in His image.
Bibliography
McQuilkin, Robertson, and Paul Copan.An Introduction to Biblical
Ethics.Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017.
[1]Robert McQuilkin and Paul Copan,An Introduction to Biblical Ethics:
Walking in the way Wisdom(Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2013),
181.
[2]Ibid.
[3]Ibid.
[4]McQuilkin and Copan,An Introduction to Biblical Ethics, 183.
[5]Ibid.
[6]Ibid.
