Natural and Supernatural - Part Three

And it is this natural order in us - an order according to which mothers, for example, instinctively protect their children - even at the expense of their own lives; according to which, also, human beings know instinctively that abortion is a crime against nature - as is homosexuality and all the other sins against the ten commandments. Children know instinctively that lying is wrong. The intellect was made for truth, as the will for good. This is the natural order with its natural laws - an order of human nature that survives beneath the wounds of the consequences of the Original Sin. And here, precisely, is where the great evil of the evolutionary worldview manifests itself.

For, in the evolutionary worldview there is no natural order of goodness surviving beneath the state of sin and requiring in an absolute manner, the sacraments of baptism that only Christianity can supply, because of Christ the Redeemer. The evolutionary worldview reduces us all to the status of only hominids that have only slightly evolved beyond the chimpanzee or gorilla stage of evolution. The only “natural order” – including natural laws of morality, that evolution will acknowledge, are those to be found in this pre-human stage of hominidal existence. This is why we have “martyrs” to the cause of evolution like Jane Goodall and the whale lover, Diane, whose last name I am not sure of…- and why bestiality is on the rise. And why abortion is legal and commonly recognized as “natural” – whereas it is the most un-natural of crimes!