Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Israeli scholar Yuval Noah Harari is a high-demand speaker at conferences worldwide and the author of several books that have sold tens of millions of copies.

His work on questions of human consciousness, artificial intelligence,

and the future of civilization is fascinating. And it often feeds conspiracy theories. From

historically materialist worldview, Harari argues that human beings are not unique or special.

And he predicts that science will soon overtake nature as the driving force of human evolution.

Thus, he argues, people should hack themselves with biotech in order to secure a better future. And yet, Harari often

misses some of the most basic implications of his own philosophical assumptions, such as denying

any basis for morality while also insisting that oppression is wrong. For example,

in a recently posted video, Harari referred to Charles Darwin as a prophet of sexual liberation.

Though this was almost certainly not Darwin's intent, by showing that there is no purpose guiding

biology, Darwin freed what's now called the LGBTQ community from fear that they were

sending against God. And Horari's right. After all, if there's no creator with specific

intentions for humanity and their behavior, and people are free to live however they wish.

Harari argued this in a post that read this way, quote, nothing in nature has a purpose and nothing that

exists is unnatural. So happy international day against homophobia, bifobia, and transphobia, and

quote. However, as Derek Rishmori replied, and I quote, just to point out the obvious, if there's no

god, no teleology, no intrinsic shape or dignity to the person or the

sexual act, then while nothing is unnatural and permitted, neither is prejudice against or persecution

of such things."

You see, what Harari missed was that if humanity has no purpose, and as he put it,

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