Thursday, April 2, 2020

Creation Moment 4/3/2020 - CoronaVirus: When one Tosses out the "Image of God" you are Lead to This Question

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
Genesis 1:27

"Coronavirus: experts in evolution explain why social distancing feels so unnatural  (The Conversation). Isabelle Winder and Vivian Shaw insert a Darwin story into the imaginations of people lonely at home.
There is some great advice out there about how to stay connected at such times. But why is the act of social distancing so hard for so many of us? The answer
probably has more to do with our evolutionary history than people might think.
Humans are part of a very sociable group, the primates. Primates are distinguished from other animals by their grasping hands and various ways of moving around, and because they show a high level of social interaction.
This tale accomplishes nothing,.... It’s even illogical, because it postulates that human primates can exercise free will to violate what their selfish genes make them want to do. So now, natural selection has free will? Ridiculous.
As we evolved since our split with chimpanzees, our brains have continued to expand. These increases seem to fit with even more intense reliance on community.
This also makes no sense in evolutionary theory.
A bigger brain should fit with less intense reliance on community. Every big-brained individual human primate should be able to shove away all competition, pound his chest and say, “Step aside, brutes; I’ll do it my way.”
But that’s the point with evolutionary theory; it is so flexible, it can propose opposite “scenarios” that are just as ludicrous as any other one in the Darwin Storytelling Society (i.e., the secular media).
Our inner ape craves company,” they conclude.

Q: Does it help you pass the time imagining yourself as a chimpanzee picking ticks off the back of other chimps?."
CEH