RE: [asa] Moral law - Francis Collins

My comment was in answer also to what Bob Schneider had written, viz. "I believe that in "The Descent of Man" (if memory serves me well), Darwin speculated that moral sensibility and sympathy was a product of evolution. While human beings may have freely developed moral codes (e.g., the Athenians) or worked them out under divine guidance or seen them as divinely bestowed (e.g., the Hebrews), I do not see that this militates against the contribution of evolution to ethics."

Accordingly, all that humans may think and develop must be invariably linked to the historical evolutionary process that preceded the time when all these sorts of ideas of God, creation, morality, etc. were conceived in the human mind.

Moorad

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From: Dawsonzhu@aol.com [mailto:Dawsonzhu@aol.com]
Sent: Tue 1/2/2007 6:45 PM
To: Alexanian, Moorad; donperrett@theology-perspectives.net; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] Moral law - Francis Collins

"Hence, I do not understand those who attempt to derive something like the Christian faith from evolutionary theory."

I'm sorry, I'm really confused here. I cannot think of anyone who is actually
"deriving something like the _Christian faith_ from evolutionary theory".
Are you talking about atheists? Perhaps you meant "moral law" but even
then, you should strive to be clear at least.

alexanian@uncw.edu wrote:

        I agree totally that the Christian faith is 100% on the side of the individual versus society. "What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?" Luke 15:4.
        
        Surely, evolution deals always with the group rather than individual survival. Hence, I do not understand those who attempt to derive something like the Christian faith from evolutionary theory. In fact, the Christian faith has all to do with a particular historical event, viz. the death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ, rather than the history of life on earth or throughout the universe.
        
        
        
        Moorad
        
        

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