Stem Cells-Darwinism

Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.

Recently I mentioned a bill up for debate before the Senate that would allow the destruction of 400,000 human embryos for the harvesting of their stem cells. And what we talked about then was the exploitation of an ethic of “the ends justify the means.” There is another important angle at work here-the fact that naturalistic Darwinism has sunk deeply into our culture.

The Darwinistic contribution to innocent and helpless people, as is the case with embryos, is that they lack the value the rest of us have. They quickly become dispensable for the ends of science, politics, and the furtherance of the human species. Without a deep sense of human nature such as we find in Christianity, human embryos become nothing but another variable in the grizzly calculation for survival. A Christian worldview teaches us that each human is of inestimable worth-and that includes each and every embryo. They can’t simply be treated as political or scientific fodder for our future benefit.

This has been Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church and Director for Dayspring Center for Christian Studies. For more information please visit, everythoughtcaptive.org.