Our View of Origins Will Shape our View of Man and Society
Evolutionary Biologist William Provine of Cornell University wrote: “Humans and other animals make choices frequently, but these are determined by the interaction of heredity and environment...No inherent moral or ethical laws exist...we have no ultimate meaning in life.” Dr. Provine is to be commended for his consistent application of Darwinian dogma. Evolutionary religion leads to an understanding that man is an animal, there are no moral absolutes, and no meaning to life. The strongest animals are free to order the world as they see fit with no moral standards constraining their plans.
Given these evolutionary foundations, the social engineers can justify the establishment of some pretty horrifying societies. The establishment of a Statist order where Big Brother watches and regulates our every move would make good sense. Control the genetics and environment of the people and make them servants of the state. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World where the masses are drugged and entertained into a passive submission becomes a real possibility given the principles of the evolutionary faith.
Unlike the Darwinian myth, the creation story of Genesis provides principles that can guide us in the development of a free and well-ordered society. It was this Christian foundation that moved our forefathers to recognize that man is endowed by His Creator with certain unalienable rights such as the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Christian faith alone can provide the religious foundations necessary to preserve liberty and assure a well-ordered society.
Genesis teaches that men and women are not animals but bear the image of God and together are commanded to have dominion over the creation under God’s authority. “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’" (Genesis 1:27-28) Man is to serve God and rule over the creation according to His will.
Man was given dominion over the creation, but he was not free to rule the world tyrannically or make up his own ethical order. Even his access to the trees of the garden was limited by the commandment of God, who prohibited eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man and woman were to rule the world, but they were not autonomous—they could not determine good and evil for themselves. God alone established the moral order of the garden and the earth.
The serpent, however, tempted Eve to make up her own rules for the government of the garden and Adam followed her in this first attempt at self-government apart from God’s word. The first legislation they passed was that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was good for food. This attempt to determine good and evil for themselves brought the righteous judgment of God upon them and all their descendants. Man was given dominion under the rule of God, not apart from it.
The evolutionist, like the serpent says men and women can determine good and evil for themselves and rule the earth according to their own desires, unless of course they recommend a plan to rule the earth according to the blueprint of God’s word. That would not be acceptable! Given their Darwinian assumptions, what moral objections could they raise.