Tony BeamOne of the best quotes from C.S. Lewis’s “The Abolition of Man” describes Lewis’s warning to scientific elites who believe they have won the war against any belief in the supernatural.?Lewis said, “Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.?Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.? In every victory, besides being the general who triumphs, he is also the prisoner who follows the triumphal car.”?
Denying the supernatural means the only explanation left for life is the survival of the fittest.?Life is reduced to nothing more than biological instincts fueled by chemical processes in the brain that drive humanity relentlessly forward, clawing out our own space in the evolutionary cycle of life.?
Today, Princeton University bio-ethics professor Peter Singer?perfectly?embodies the ultimate?manifestation of?pure?scientific naturalism. Singer recently spoke in glowing terms of?the forced starvation of Terri Schiavo.? Looking back over 2005, he sees her death as a key to the changing ethical?arguments over the sanctity of all human life.?Citing the already liberal laws embracing assisted suicide in countries like the Netherlands and Belgium, Singer believes by 2040, when?much of?the?population?of the developed countries of the world will be 75 years old or older, that “political pressure for allowing terminally or chronically ill patients choose when to die will be irresistible.”?
Compare this?morbid picture to the picture we see?revealed?through Christian doctrine.?The?apostle John speaks of Jesus, saying, “In Him was life, and the life was the Light of?men”(John 1:4).?Because there is life in Christ, a Christian can endure the pain of standing over the grave of a loved one because he knows the invitation?to the resurrection is already in the mail. What a contrast.?The?naturalist can only look at the grave with fear and trembling,?believing that when this vapor of life has evaporated, all he has to look forward to is the cold darkness of?the grave.