Christian Carnival CLXV
Mar 14th, 2007 by Amanda
I haven’t participated in the Christian Carnival in several months for the same reasons that my posting was down over the last few months. Thankfully, diligent prayer and seeking has brought my heart back into a right attitude with God. So here’s this week’s Carnival (hosted at Pseudo-Polymath) and highlights:
- Michael looks at Once Saved, Always Saved - “Sometimes I can go for 6 or 8 hours in a row without sinning, but then I wake up and have to get out of bed.”
- Jeremy looks at whether the word “Bible” should be capitalized in Bible or bible?
- Tom looks at The Beauty of Virtue - “…virtue is not unique to Christianity, it has a unique fit within the Christian faith.”
- Matthew talks about Sanitizing Darwin - “Darwinism is not a religion, though it shares many of the same elements as religions. It is an intellectual movement, and subject to…evolution.”
Happy reading!
Being me, of course, I dived straight for the bit about Darwin. I’d note that the characterisation of us evilutionists as “Darwin’s Champions” is a bit of a straw man. Most of us would be more accurately described as champions of evolutionary biology or of the scientific community in general.
Darwin was a great thinker, but he could never singlehandedly match the mental prowess that the scientific community brought to bear on his brainchild. And the results have been bad for bigots. Since the advent of evolutionary population genetics it has been impossible to be 1) intelligent; 2) interested in the survival of humanity; 3) accepting of evolutionary biology; 4) a eugenicist.
The reason? As Fisher and Wright clarified, the rate at which a population is able to evolve in response to its environment is directly proportional to the diversity within that population. This is mathematically quantifiable, and the logic is impeccable.
Thus, if you want the human race to survive, it is profoundly stupid to artificially reduce its diversity. There’s too great a risk of killing off the gene that would have helped us through the next big disaster. And, paradoxically, to be considered “natural” any culling must be something that happens despite our best efforts. QED.
Oh, I’m loving the new banner! How serenely beautiful (or is that beautifully serene?)
The whole site’s gorgeous!