Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never change.

So welcome to the

to the podcast this is episode 254 this is the

podcast I'm Douglas Wilson and you are presumably you I want to talk this time in this opening segment about Darwinism and human rights.

Mankind is a logical being collectively.

People can be illogical and inconsistent

when it comes to individual behavior,

but mankind collectively always lives out the implications of the premises

that he holds.

Now, what does that mean? Well, it means, for example, that what is the logical consequence

of Darwinism? If there is no God, if we can account for everything that we are by attributing it to time and chance

acting on matter and once life once somehow something got across the vast chasm between inorganic material and organic material

and matter started replicating in a live sort of way. Once that started happening and certain mutations were all

favored, the mutations were all random, but the favored mutations

favored survival and so you have survival of the fittest and we all get to the point where we are now.

Here we are, right?

Well, aside from, I'm not getting into the science of it, I'm not getting into how reasonable the argument is on a

philosophical or a theological basis. I simply want to talk about the ethical implications. If there is no God and we are just

ugly bags of mostly water, if we are just meat bones and protoplasm and the end product of so many blind years of blind evolution,

then what does it mean to say that we have human rights?

The Declaration of Independence,

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