Albert wrote:How does evolution change the fact that life is sacred?
Because, if it were true, it would imply that human life is the result of random mutation and natural selection only, thus actual human life is the product of material causes, chance, and barbarity only. Such a system typically denies any divine sanction or ruling regarding human existence and man is no more special than amoebas or any other critter that develops by the same material process.
I am both an immaterialist and a Christian, so I fundamentally deny these notions.
Human life is not the product of random material conditions and natural selection, but by Divine sanction and thus its values or lack thereof is determined by God.
Man is made in the Image of God and Christ died for the world as a show of love. Thus, human life is both sacred and special.
I confess this boldly.
The fact that most communists (who claim to be so generous and loving to the poor) believe that human life is neither sacred nor special should give anyone pause, especially given their
actual track record when it comes to ruling nations (Stalin's Russia, Mao's China, etc). In reality, given their worldview and anthropology, such results would be quite predictable.
the irony in the fact that communists and leftists claim to love the poor and enjoy denigrating right-wing Christians as cruel hypocrites should also be noted since statistics show that Christians, especially red-state American Christians, are arguably the most generous people in the world regarding charity and disaster relief.
This alone should be all one needs to know about the implications of valuing human life.
One up-side though is this: the most pro-life people (who value humans as special and sacred) also tend to have the highest birth-rates (pretty predictable given their views really). What this means is the future of mankind will invariably be in the hands of right-wing Christians (mostly in America, South America, and Sub-Saharan Africa) and Islamic fundamentalists in the middle east, north Africa, (and now) Europe.
The future of the world is going to look a bit like A.D. 1095 all things considered, which gives me tingles all over.