Creation Moment 2/15/2023 - Evolutionary Counseling?

But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles...

Jude 1:17

"Darwinism is deterministic. 

We are all puppets of our genes. 

As the late Darwinist professor at Cornell William Provine often said, there is no free will in evolution. 

Q: So what’s the use of evolutionary counseling? 

Nothing is right or wrong. 

If you want a safe society where virtue is prized and vice is condemned, don’t let Darwinians get anywhere near government leaders!

 

Psychopaths: why they’ve thrived through evolutionary history – and how that may change (The Conversation, 12 Feb 2023). Get this: Jonathan R. Goodman, a researcher in Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge, thinks that psychopaths are an evolutionary success story. Keep him away from City Hall!

From an evolutionary point of view, psychopathy is

puzzling. Given that psychopathic traits are so negative, why do they remain in successive generations? Psychopathy seems to be, in the words of biologists, “maladaptive”, or disadvantageous. Assuming there’s a genetic component to this family of disorders, we’d expect it to decrease over time.

But that’s not what we see — and there’s evidence that the tendencies are, at least in some contexts, an evolutionary benefit. According to my own research, the reason for this may be down to the ability to fake desirable qualities through deception.

Cooperation without punishment (Nature, 21 Jan 2023). Evolutionary psychologists play games with human lives. 

They build “models” of how cooperators and “cheaters” manipulate each others’ behavior. The players in their games don’t have to be human beings, mind you. They could be lemmings, hyenas or bacteria. Cooperators are not more “moral” than cheaters because there are no morals in the Stuff Happens Law.

Q: How dangerous can evolutionary games get? 

These two evolutionists think their model works if there’s no punishment. That’s right; following these guys might lead to letting all the felons out of prison!

In our evolutionary model, the population contains

heterogeneous conditional cooperators whose decisions depend on past cooperation levels. The population plays a repeated public goods game in a moderately noisy environment where individuals can occasionally commit mistakes in their cooperative decisions and in their imitation of the role models’ strategies. We show that, under moderate levels of noise, injecting a few altruists into the population triggers positive reciprocity among conditional cooperators, thereby providing a novel mechanism to establish stable cooperation. More broadly, our findings indicate that self-governance is possible while avoiding the detrimental effects of punishment, and suggest that society should focus on creating a critical amount of trust to harness the conditional nature of its members.

To encourage sustainability, we must remember we are apes, not angels (New Scientist, 21 Sept 2022). The Darwinist authors of this highly-evolutionary news magazine don’t believe in angels, of course. Their solution to society’s problems is to make everybody act like apes. 

Q: But can apes act like angels?

To show how illogical their position is, watch them tell other people

what they “must” do. “Rather than trying to conquer our evolved desire for status, we must switch the symbols used to display it,” they say. 

But there are no “musts” in evolution. Darwinian philosophy is an amoral, stuff-happens universe of accidents with no truths, no goals, and no moral compass. And what is a symbol if not a pointer to an immaterial thought? The only beings capable of symbolic thought are humans. Saying they evolved from apes begs the question of evolution." CEH