Grim Realities from the Evolutionary Perspective By Brian Simpson

Life is indeed grim from an evolutionary perspective, and in terms of metaphysical comfort alone in the existential darkness, Christianity would seem to throw a light in the otherwise darkness:

“… cultures and races, like individuals, are born to die. Biologists, counting the records in the rocks, tell us that no less than about 95% of all once-existing species and races are now extinct, and an historian might reach a similar count for cultures. Journalists may scream about “genocide,” but if they include genocide by nature rather than by man, as they apparently do, they are being ridiculous. Nature is concerned with evolving life, not preserving a living museum of all species, and genocide, like individual death is the only way of clearing space.” Professor Raymond B. Cattell, “Ethics and the Social Sciences,” in R. Pearson (ed.), Ecology and Evolution, (Institute for the Study of man, Washington DC, n.d.), pp. 86-87.

Man, I think, faced with this stark scenario, cries out for more, for purpose in the universe.