As I’ve argued here in the past, Darwinian materialism is the (unwanted) gift that keeps on giving. Christians and conservatives keep getting mauled by fresh heads of this Hydra, which seems to sprout two new replacements whenever we hack one off. One monstrously novel social evil after another appears first in academia, then festers in our media, infects our institutions, and finally co-opts the steel fist of the State—which forces it on us, often to the applause of cowardly, and similarly co-opted churches.
The most destructive implication of materialism is the simplest: that human beings don’t have souls. Our rational minds, our sense of self, our moral intuitions, our loves and hates and loyalties are finally fictions in this view—side-effects, illusions, the shadows cast by what is only really real: mere chemistry and physics. Your sense of “you,” my own experience of “me,” the “love” between two people … all of that is all just smoke and mirrors, produced as epiphenomena of what’s actually happening: neurons in our brains shooting sparks through the meat, driven by iron laws of deterministic causation or the blind whims of random chance. Free will is an illusion and our “selves” wink out at death.
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