[__ Science __ ] The Evolution of Morality

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Darwin’s failed attempt to explain the origin of morality ultimately led to millions of deaths in the 20th century as he rejected the true source for morality in God

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Darwin’s failed attempt to explain the origin of morality ultimately led to millions of deaths in the 20th century as he rejected the true source for morality in God

Odd then, that Darwin's rejected creationists eugenic principals as an "overwhelming evil"(in The Descent of Man), and Darwinist Reginald Punnett's demonstrated that the eugenic ideas of the Nazis were scientifically unsupportable.

Granted, creationist eugenicists rejected the ultimate consequences of their beliefs in the Nazi holocaust, but the law of unintended consequences comes in here.

Darwin discussed why morality happens to also be good for a society, but that shouldn't be a surprise to a Christian; most everything God asks of us happens to be good for us, and for the society in which we live.

 

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Darwin’s failed attempt to explain the origin of morality ultimately led to millions of deaths in the 20th century as he rejected the true source for morality in God

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Darwin recognized that there was a higher morality exhibited by some men and women that seemed difficult to reconcile with an evolution of social morality. Yet because of his commitment to just such a principle, he was forced to believe that somehow it had, leading Darwin to hold an almost utopian view on the subject—that mankind was morally improving and would continue to do so. Ironically enough, Darwin appeals to the Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12) as the highest standard of morality, yet believed and wrote that it came about via evolved sympathy as a cultivated habit.

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good points - thanks