A recent article in Psychology Today takes to task, among other things, the notion that evolution only applies to biology. I mean, hasn’t the mind also been affected by evolution? As Tim Challies points out, Darwinian thinking expands like a cancer to try to explain all of human behavior.
True Darwinian believers can’t help themselves, because the "explanatory power" of evolution forges their views of origins and morality, since there is a vacuum in that area of the worldview of all who deny the other primary explanation of origins – creation.
Tim goes on to to discuss the absurdities of Darwinian thought as applied to the evolution of the psyche:
The ten politically incorrect truths in this article…are dressed up in a guise of Darwinism that makes them
absurd. The claims range from why most suicide bombers are Muslim, why
beautiful people have more daughters, why humans are naturally
polygamous, why sexual harassment isn’t sexist, and why blonds are more
attractive.
What’s interesting is how some Darwinians claim that evolution explains just about everything, others deny using it as a worldview (but usually do).
What's interesting is how some Christians claim that evolution explains just about everything, others deny using it as a worldview (but usually do).
My comment above indicates how Christians view evolution in a negative way, explaining everything wrong with the modern world. One could, I suppose, accuse Christians of interpreting everything from their religious worldview. At least, science, through evolution, try to make a rational case based on evidence.
I see your point – and to some extent, I agree. Christians do believe that evolution is one of the primary false ideas of recent times, not only because they think it misrepresents the truth of origins and how biology works, but also because it undermines belief in the god of the bible, and encourages atheism. In fact, there are many reasons that evangelicals dislike evolution.
And to some extent, this pscychology today article backs up the Christian's complaint – it is not just that xians see it hiding under every secular philosophy and world view component, but that evolutionists are increasingly admitting and even promoting such ideas.
And look at how it is being used above to justify polygamy, for example. Tim Challies addresses this nicely in his article.
Evolutionary thinking has certainly affected the world philosophically and socially more than scientifically – I mean, evolutionary thinking has really provided precious little in the way of scientific discovery, but it has emboldened anti-Christian atheists, it hindered the progress of civil rights after recontstruction, and in WWII, contributed to the formation of Nazi eugenics (giving a scientific validity to eugenics that was already being practiced).