Some of us are better.” In other words, Christians enjoy a gospel that makes a difference in our lives and in the world. It’s another thing entirely when you don’t. The negative judgment isn’t the final judgment. It’s one thing to have so low a view of man when you believe he’s made in the image of God and his creator wants to change him. Malcolm describes.īut there’s a difference. We human beings are, individually and as a whole, mostly the kind of people Dr. As the Catholic historian Lord Acton said, “power tends to corrupt” us. From Scripture onward, the entire Catholic tradition speaks of our blindness, stubbornness and conceit.
Christianity knows how great are fallen man’s limits and failings. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. They hold these beliefs only because they have “evolutionary importance.” He finishes his answer: “I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. Human beings fight for what he calls their beliefs, putting the word in ironic quotes.
Other animals, he continues, fight for things they need, like food. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.” For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. “What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware?” he asks.
Understandably, given his experience with the dinosaur disaster on the island. Near the beginning of The Lost World, Malcolm answers a question that assumes what he believes an entirely too high view of humanity. Malcolm, the book’s wise man, keeps saying, “Life will find a way,” and it does, and that’s why things go so wrong. It’s the sequel to Jurassic Park, a secular book with the Christian message that things go wrong because mankind can’t be trusted with power, in this case the power genetic engineering gives us. Ian Malcolm’s from Michael Crichton’s book The Lost World. One of the “deep thoughts” Facebook pages recently posted a comment of Dr.
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