27 March 2004 at 09.47.19 ZuluTime

AIG News Weekly Update: Is evolution an excuse for sin?

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Posted by Hunter [24.8.22.236 - c-24-8-22-236.client.comcast.net] on 27 March 2004 at 09.47.19 ZuluTime:

AiG Weekly News
     26 March 2004
     Weekly News

Q: Recently, news articles have said that acts like adultery and stealing can be blamed on our evolution. What are these incredible things some evolutionists are saying about human behavior?

A: There's a new fad called 'evolutionary psychology.' Remember the old saying-the devil made me do it? Perhaps the way to put it now is: 'evolution made me do it!'

Quotable quote:
     'But some will object, "If we allowed appealing to God anytime we don't understand something, then science itself would be impossible, for science proceeds on the assumption of natural causality." This argument is a red herring. It is true that science is not compatible with just any form of theism, particularly a theism that holds to a capricious god who intervenes so often that the contrast between primary and secondary causality is unintelligible. But Christian theism holds that secondary causality is God's usual mode and primary causality is infrequent, comparatively speaking. That is why Christianity, far from hindering the development of science, actually provided the womb for its birth and development.'
     - Moreland, J.P., Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation, Baker Book House Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, p. 226, 1989.
     
     Time magazine, for example, had an article that said infidelity is built into our genes. Because of our alleged evolutionary history, it said we're programmed to cheat on our spouses.
     We're also hearing that homosexual tendencies are there because they're part of some people's DNA make-up!
     While this is all preposterous, there is a connection between evolution and immorality, but it's not genetic. Believing in evolution can lead to immorality. Evolutionary thinking undermines the idea of absolute standards for our behavior. If there is no Creator and we evolved, then no one owns us and we have a right to set our own rules.
     Evolution is not only bad science, it's bad psychology. We should be guided by God's Word, the Bible. It's there that we learn that our sinful behavior is a result of the fall of the first man, Adam, in Genesis.

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