McQuilkin and Copan on the Falsity of Evolutionary Ethics
McQuilkin and Copan give several compelling arguments to the falsity of
evolutionary ethics. All the problems have destructive implications and
point people away from the truth of God. One of the most important
problems of evolutionary ethics is that it cannot explain humankind’s
origin of dutiful responsibility. If this type of ethical belief is based on
biological development from mindless matter, then going from nonrational
existence to intellectual reasoning of how one decides what is morally
right and wrong is highly improbable. “There’s no difference between
whether I to be moral and whether I to be hungry since both ought ought
are functions of evolutionary hardwiring.” Additionally, the problems [1]
with evolutionary ethics are inevitable since it denies a Creator God who is
himself moral. Emphasis is placed on survival and reproduction, not on
truth.[2] The contrast of beliefs is incompatible. On the one hand,
evolutionary ethics merits a human’s ability to act ethically as the result
of adapting well to environment. “Naturalism can only describe how……………