No more evolution

I suppose I shouldn't have been laughing but I was. In a Washington Post article the author lamented along with a scientist the loss of habitat in the Bahamas for lemon sharks. I like lemon sharks, they are a cool creature.

The reason I was laughing was not at the sharks. But what I was laughing at was the unconscious on again / off again evolutionary thinking of a scientist the author quotes. Let me give you her quote and then comment. She said, "They've been survivors on an evolutionary scale, but they've met their match, and it is us." The clear intent of this quote and the article is to convince the reader to stop thinking evolutionarily and suddenly start thinking as though they had a moral obligation to something or someone.

Yes you read that right. The author - and really not just this author and scientist but everyone who seeks to ground any sort of concern for the environment in something less than God's mandated stewardship of His Creation - seeks to impose a moral obligation on the reader to do something to preserve the lemon sharks. That's right you are to throw off your evolutionary instincts to be a winner and instead help someone else be a winner.

This double-speak is endemic to our conversing because we are made moral creatures. The environmentalist attempts to convince us to violate the dictates of evolution by not seeking to preserve ourselves only but to be altruistic and help other species. But are we obligated to preserve other species? No, obligation only arises in relationship with another person. Though the evolutionist seeks to avoid accountability with God they can't avoid accountability, they can just pervert it.