Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.
A recent cover article in Time magazine proclaims that there is not much at all separating you from the primate world. The piece details how close your genetic make up is to an ape’s and then concludes that the differences between the two are entirely wrapped up in those few genes. You are intended to believe, with all the convenient pictures of babies next to chimps and humans morphing from apes, that you are nothing but an ape with a few more genes attached.
But there is a flaw in this point of view. It is what C.S. Lewis called “nothing-but-ery,” or the view that humans are nothing but a sack of chemicals or a bunch of genes. Lewis, like many others, contends that genetic material cannot account for our souls or our minds. Humans stand out from the pack not because we drew the lucky card from the evolutionary deck, but because we have been endowed with those things that make us in the image of God.
This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church. For more information, please visit quaillake.org.
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