"Commenting on this situation, the New York Times featured an article called:
Mr. Asma’s opening line is, “Nature doesn’t care about you.”
Within an evolutionary worldview, he is being consistent because human life is not intrinsically valuable, and it has no deeper meaning.
Darwinism, hailed by Mr. Asma as a “great achievement”, is very clear on one central point: “survival of the fittest” (actually reproduction) is what drives evolution forward. Asma in his own words on this:
Certainly not by “sheltering in place” and caring for the sick!
That notion spawns from Christian morality. Rather, if he were being consistent, he should suggest that nature (evolution) should take its course. Just carry on as normal and let people be exposed. Ideally, this would cause a great deal of death among the lesser-fit—but surely that would be a good thing that would benefit the human species by making us stronger and fitter.
That is, after all, how evolution supposedly works. Yet, paradoxically, that is not what Mr. Asma is suggesting we do. Instead, he suggests we make believe we are at war.
How is it a benefit to the human race, evolutionarily speaking, to shelter in place? It seems that, despite all his macho rhetoric about ‘cold bath truths’, Mr. Asma really cannot face up to the consequences of his own worldview.
Genesis 1:27 states, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Our lives have intrinsic value, greater than any animal or inanimate object, because we are a special creation of God in His own image."
CMI
Does the Pandemic Have a Purpose? Only if we give it one. The coronavirus is neither good nor bad. It wants only to reproduce.Yes, that is a lengthy title. This is an opinion piece by Mr. Stephen Asma, a professor of philosophy.
Mr. Asma’s opening line is, “Nature doesn’t care about you.”
Within an evolutionary worldview, he is being consistent because human life is not intrinsically valuable, and it has no deeper meaning.
Darwinism, hailed by Mr. Asma as a “great achievement”, is very clear on one central point: “survival of the fittest” (actually reproduction) is what drives evolution forward. Asma in his own words on this:
Disease and death are not bugs in the system, but features. In fact, the cold-bath truth is that natural selection works only because many more organisms are born than can survive to procreate.So how should people who really believe that react to a global viral pandemic?
Certainly not by “sheltering in place” and caring for the sick!
That notion spawns from Christian morality. Rather, if he were being consistent, he should suggest that nature (evolution) should take its course. Just carry on as normal and let people be exposed. Ideally, this would cause a great deal of death among the lesser-fit—but surely that would be a good thing that would benefit the human species by making us stronger and fitter.
That is, after all, how evolution supposedly works. Yet, paradoxically, that is not what Mr. Asma is suggesting we do. Instead, he suggests we make believe we are at war.
How is it a benefit to the human race, evolutionarily speaking, to shelter in place? It seems that, despite all his macho rhetoric about ‘cold bath truths’, Mr. Asma really cannot face up to the consequences of his own worldview.
Genesis 1:27 states, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Our lives have intrinsic value, greater than any animal or inanimate object, because we are a special creation of God in His own image."
CMI