It is interesting to listen to Atheist scientists trying to substantiate the claim that moral rectitude can be derived from what has evolved to be the human brain. Their statement is that it can all be determined from what is in that organ and that God is not required.
The eminent Oxford professor. John Lenox makes short work of this assertion by asking scientists what they do their science with. After they eventually admit to the fact that it is their brain he asks what the brain is and where it came from. Inevitably the evolutionary, reductive answer always refers to its origin being a "senseless, unguided process". He then relates this process to the development of the computer sitting on their desk and asks that if it were made using the same evolutionary pathway would they have any reason to trust It? He always presses them for an answer. After the inevitable response of "No" it precipitates, from Lenox the observation "Well I think you have a problem"
The problem with reductionism, in this case, is that, by its own admission, the course of evolution is driven by the notion of the survival of the fittest. There is no place for a moral code that advocates sanctity of life, the care of the disabled, the protection of babies and children and the safeguarding of the elderly, to mention just a few important points. Sadly Scientists cannot claim any high ground here for, within their fraternity, there are people that have gone way beyond any boundaries of common decency. The Auschwitz doctors and many others who are making vast sums of money from body parts derived from the abortion of almost 60 million babies in the United States alone. (Suggested Prayer)
The Christian standpoint is that mankind is made in the image of God and, with that comes a recognition of a moral law that we can live by or break depending on our motivation (free will). As moral law cannot be derived from a "mindless, unguided process" dedicated to survival, it can only come from outside of ourselves, from the heart of a loving God who says such things as, you must not murder or you must not lie etc. Of itself the bearing of the responsibility of formulating and, ultimately upholding such a law can only be carried by a being who is the embodiment of it.
Roger Manchester UK
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