A Predicament
by Kathy Brown on January 6th, 2010 | 0 comments
Those who are educated scientifically in America generally adhere to the idea that human beings evolve from apes. This is the how public schools and state universities teach the origins of man. (Foundational Presupposition Chart) Doctors, in particular, must find themselves in a predicament.
One of the key tenets of evolution is that “survival of the fittest” results in the progress of living things and beings. This process is considered beneficial. In most cases, a physician defies this vital aspect of Darwin’s theory. If there were logical adherence to the conviction that those who are weak should die off, there would be a grand effort by caretakers to ignore the sick and vulnerable. The attention of a doctor assists in reversing the admirable gains of natural selection. Medical personnel seldom recognize they work against their own evolutionary presuppositions.
As acceptance of rationing health care and publically funded abortions grow, physicians will be called to declare their beliefs. As in Hitler’s regime, they will choose to “do no harm” or “do harm when it is useful.” They will have to decide whether human beings have value because they are made in the image of God, or if they are high order organisms of the material world whose elimination would benefit the species. There will no longer be the luxury of holding two contradictory worldviews at the same time and operating out of the one grounded in compassion for the weak. There will be clarification.
It would behoove us, as participants in the culture, to ask those nurses, doctors and aides around us why they do what they do. And by now, you can figure out the follow-up question.
From Genesis 1:25 - 26
"God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness . . .'"
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