just some thoughts
This leads into the argument that we are body then spirit. This kind of evolutionary thinking is perfect fodder for atheist doctrine. The atheist hangs his hat on this and says if we all evolved and we are just bits of matter, what need of God.
The problem there is that we are more than matter. Whatever brain effect is measured when charity occurs (assuming the experiment is correct) does not cause the charity. The charity itself is caused by the heart, by an act of will.
I just can’t get out of my head this program I saw that interviewed evolution and almost every single atheist used evolution as the “scientific” basis for making a belief in God superfluous.
It is so sad and so destructive on so many leveles for them and the people around them. The brain and the “evolution” is not where to look, but the thing in itself, the “I” that must be nurtured, by our will and by God, that when seeing life with charity we can conform more perfectly to the image of God.
I fear that without some intellectual assent to the existence of a loving God we are left akin to animals and seeing each other driven by animal needs and wants. How can you lift yourself to agape then? Pity is not enough. Charity I think almost requires some fundamental acknowlegement that we are made to be Christ’s brothers and sisters. If not then would our fellow man even be worthy of charity as we are commanded?
Would charity itself be strangled by degrees without the fullness of the truth?
