New Church Life September/October 2017 | Page 64

new church life: september/october 2017 Today the battle takes place between those who maintain that everything is coincidental and random, thus that God does not exist (Darwinism) and those who believe that there is a God, and that everything has a goal and purpose. of chance and laws of nature; and that the development of nature towards humanity as the crown of creation, is nothing but human wishful thinking. Man is just a random species that coincidentally and temporarily is the earth’s most intelligent. The order of things are not willed, and therefore neither good nor moral. I repeat: “The  order of things are  not willed and are therefore neither good nor moral!” This attack – and it is an attack, make no mistake about that – on those who believe that everything has a purpose and a meaning, thus that God exists, and that morals and  ethics  are real values, essential to all truly human life, seems today as a case won, at least throughout the western hemisphere, for the Darwinists. Darwinism does pose a threat to our beloved city, that’s for sure! So how can we, small and insignificant as we apparently