Friday, February 3, 2023

Creation Moment 2/4/2023 - The Built-in Sense of Morality

"Evolutionists are still puzzling over why people have an in-built
sense of fairness and a tendency to cooperate, even when it goes against their rational self-interest.
An article in the leading journal Science, entitled ‘The Evolution of the Golden Rule’, reviews competing theories of how evolutionary forces might have shaped cooperation and altruistic tendencies, in a ‘survival of the fittest’ environment.
It seems that large-scale cooperation—e.g. constructing transport networks or sending robots to Mars—only works where a system of rewards (for cooperation) and punishments (for unfairness) is in place. 
Several evolutionary biologists argue that such systems might be deeply ingrained in our brains—an ‘evolutionary underpinning of morality’.
But, as the article notes, with so many cooperative tendencies built into our brains, why isn’t there more harmony in the world?"
CMI 
1) As to why there's a built-in sense of fairness-- Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know His law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right. Romans 2:14,15 NLT
2) As to why there isn't more harmony in the world - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9