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The Daily Article

Lysol factory worker is 'on the front lines now': Evolution's 'most persistent problem' and the privilege of knowing a personal God

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR APRIL 23, 2020

The "extravagant beauty" in nature defies evolutionary explanation, as does sacrificial altruism by humans. Today's podcast discusses this subject and then calls us to the truth and trust that leads to perfect freedom.

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This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

0:07.8

To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit

0:12.5

thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:19.5

Gabe Scuderi has been working for 24 years at a Lysol factory in New Jersey, but says,

0:25.6

It's the first time I felt this isn't only a job.

0:28.6

We're on the front lines now.

0:30.6

A grandmother named Estelle Slan is emailing riddles to sick children, forced into isolation

0:36.6

as they undergo treatment for cancer

0:38.4

and other dire illnesses. More than a thousand volunteer groups have been set up in the UK

0:43.9

to help the most vulnerable during the coronavirus outbreak. How are we to account for altruism?

0:50.3

Writing in the Federalist, Glenn T. Stanton notes the extravaganty in nature that defies evolutionary

0:56.7

explanation. His article describes in detail the contradictory ways Charles Darwin and other

1:03.2

evolutionists have tried to explain beauty that does not seem to serve any evolutionary purpose.

1:09.5

Yale University's Richard Prumumes theory is captured in his

1:13.0

simplest phrase, beauty happens. The bottom line is that naturalistic evolutionists have no compelling

1:19.3

explanation for what Stanton calls their most persistent problem. The same can be said of humans

1:25.4

who perform deeds of sacrificial altruism.

1:28.3

If evolutionary theory is right in claiming that survival optimization is our basic drive,

1:34.3

then why is this person taking such risks?

1:37.3

If survival of the species is the explanation, then why isn't everyone doing the same?

1:42.3

Here's the biblical response. When we care for others simply

1:46.6

because we care for them, we express a vestige of the divine image in which we are created. God loves us

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