God Arises
The Life We Seek
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denial in scientific perspective, Fred Hoyle, in his
book
The Intelligent Universe
, writes:
The modern point of view that survival is all,
has its roots in Darwin’s theory of biological
evolution through natural selection. Harsh as
it may seem, this is an open charter for any
form of opportunistic behaviour. Whenever it
can be shown with reasonable plausibility that
even cheating and murder would aid survival
either of ourselves personally or the
community in which we happen to live, then
orthodox logic enjoins us to adopt these
practices, just because there is no morality
except survival... Frankly, I am haunted by a
conviction that the nihilistic philosophy which
so-called educated opinion chose to adopt
following the publication of
The Origin of
Species
committed mankind to a course of
automatic self-destruction. A Doomsday
machine was then set ticking whether this
situation is still retrievable, whether the
machine can be stopped in some way is
unclear (Foreword).
