How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

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When we make sacrifices that benefit others, is it a real conscious choice? Or are we just unconsciously acting on an evolved genetic trait? On today’s ID the Future from the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid presents an Evolution News essay, “How to Destroy Love with Darwinism.” Altruism, as defined by evolutionists, means “behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits others of its kind.” It’s not an easy fit with Darwinism, since Darwinian evolution is all about passing your favored genes onto your offspring. From a design perspective, though, such behaviors are not baffling, for they are not genetically determined acts, as if humans are only robots governed by genes. They are acts of true self-sacrificial love, done freely and made possible because reality is more than matter and energy, and humans are more than just DNA survival machines.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.3	hello I'm Andrew McDermott. Thank you for tuning in. Today I'm reading for you a recent post at evolution
0:18.4	news.org called How to Destroy Love with Darwinism.
0:22.3	When Darwin proposed How to destroy love with Darwinism?
0:27.6	When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values.
0:31.3	One of those is love, not just sexual attraction or the tendency of organisms to form groups, but real, mental, heartfelt love, the kind of love that leads some people to die for others. To avoid sounding like
0:45.9	Gr inches, evolutionists use the word altruism, because papers on the evolution of love
0:52.3	would probably not go over too well.
0:54.0	When they talk about the evolution of altruism, readers who need a dictionary for that word
0:59.0	can probably remain unperturbed, allowing the Darwinian to compare humans with slime molds in the fine print.
1:07.1	Altruism, as defined by evolutionists, means behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits others of its kind.
1:17.0	There are plenty of examples of this.
1:19.0	Antelopes who engage in starting behavior, leaping, to warn the herd of a lion, watch them and crows that call
1:26.0	out to flock mates feeding on the ground, ants that cling to one another to make a bridge
1:31.5	so that other ants can crawl over them to close a gap.
1:34.4	Each of these individuals puts itself at risk by this behavior. In extreme cases
1:40.1	such as in ants and honeybee colonies, individuals give up the ability to reproduce,
1:45.4	and will work themselves to death for the good of the hive.
1:48.4	Such individuals are unable to pass on their own genes, a seeming conundrum for Darwinism.
1:57.0	Legacy approaches and human exceptionalism.
2:01.0	Darwinians have made some progress, they think, explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection.
2:09.0	W.D. Hamilton is considered the founder of this approach.
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