WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.700 Chapter 7 Breaking news. Good and evil are just 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:07.419 survival strategies. That's right, folks. According 00:00:07.419 --> 00:00:11.000 to totally scientific evolutionary theory, morality 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:14.779 isn't real. It's just a biological illusion created 00:00:14.779 --> 00:00:17.739 by your brain chemistry to help your ancestors 00:00:17.739 --> 00:00:22.199 not get eaten. Murder? Not actually wrong, just 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:25.719 not currently beneficial for the species. Stealing? 00:00:26.190 --> 00:00:29.070 Bad if you're the victim, but totally fine if 00:00:29.070 --> 00:00:32.409 it helps survival. Helping the poor? Just another 00:00:32.409 --> 00:00:35.729 genetic mutation to make humans cooperate. According 00:00:35.729 --> 00:00:38.829 to evolution, there's no objective right or wrong, 00:00:38.929 --> 00:00:41.990 just whatever helps genes pass to the next generation. 00:00:42.130 --> 00:00:46.250 Which means, if stealing, lying, and cheating 00:00:46.250 --> 00:00:49.990 ever became the best survival tactic, guess what? 00:00:50.189 --> 00:00:53.750 They'd be morally good, too. But hold up, why 00:00:53.750 --> 00:00:56.670 do atheists still act like some things are truly 00:00:56.670 --> 00:01:01.509 wrong? The evolutionary morality paradox. Evolutionists 00:01:01.509 --> 00:01:05.650 claim morality evolved purely for survival. Okay, 00:01:05.930 --> 00:01:08.829 let's test that theory with a totally scientific 00:01:08.829 --> 00:01:13.530 caveman experiment. Caveman A shares his food, 00:01:13.609 --> 00:01:16.849 helps the weak, and risks his life to save others. 00:01:17.170 --> 00:01:20.730 Caveman B takes all the food, pushes the weak 00:01:20.730 --> 00:01:23.959 off a cliff, and only cares about himself. According 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.379 to pure Darwinian survival, who should win? Answer. 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.359 Caveman B. He gets more resources. He removes 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.519 competition. He passes on more selfish genes. 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.079 But wait, isn't that evil? If morality was just 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.260 about survival, why do humans instinctively see 00:01:41.260 --> 00:01:44.540 selfishness as wrong? If morality evolved to 00:01:44.540 --> 00:01:47.659 keep humans alive, why do people admire sacrifice, 00:01:47.859 --> 00:01:50.739 generosity, and love things that often reduce 00:01:50.739 --> 00:01:54.840 personal survival? Maybe, just maybe, morality 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.000 isn't about survival at all, but about something 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.659 higher. Just believe it, bro. The evolutionary 00:02:01.659 --> 00:02:05.840 morality problem. Now, before you ask, has anyone 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.680 ever proven morality is just a survival tool? 00:02:09.020 --> 00:02:13.280 The answer is no. But don't worry. The experts 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.620 have a brilliant response for you. We don't know 00:02:16.620 --> 00:02:19.879 how, but it happened. Trust us. If you doubt 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:22.620 it, you just don't understand science. It's a 00:02:22.620 --> 00:02:25.060 social construct that helps species cooperate. 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.860 Translation. We have no real explanation, but 00:02:28.860 --> 00:02:31.939 shut up and believe us anyway. Society decides 00:02:31.939 --> 00:02:35.759 morality until you disagree with it. Some atheists 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:39.539 argue morality is just a social contract. Great. 00:02:40.139 --> 00:02:43.080 That means society decides what's right and wrong. 00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:46.659 But here's the problem. If society decides morality, 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:50.199 was slavery okay when most societies accepted 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:54.039 it? If society defines right and wrong, was Hitler 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.780 just following Germany's morals in the 1940s? 00:02:57.819 --> 00:03:01.400 If morality is just a survival mechanism, why 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:04.379 do people die for what's right, even when it 00:03:04.379 --> 00:03:06.879 doesn't help them survive? Here's the truth. 00:03:07.389 --> 00:03:10.830 If morality changes based on social trends, then 00:03:10.830 --> 00:03:14.389 morality is meaningless. But wait, atheists still 00:03:14.389 --> 00:03:18.110 think some things are always wrong. Why? Because 00:03:18.110 --> 00:03:21.270 deep down they know morality is objective, not 00:03:21.270 --> 00:03:24.449 a social contract. If morality is just evolution, 00:03:24.870 --> 00:03:28.009 why do atheists get mad? Have you ever noticed 00:03:28.009 --> 00:03:31.870 that atheists love talking about morality? Religion 00:03:31.870 --> 00:03:35.229 is evil. The Bible is outdated. You can be good 00:03:35.229 --> 00:03:39.099 without God. Hold up. If good and evil are just 00:03:39.099 --> 00:03:42.280 evolutionary illusions, why do atheists argue 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:44.319 about them like they actually mean something? 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:48.439 Atheists say morality is subjective, but argue 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:51.919 as if it's objective. That's like saying, taste 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:55.159 is just personal preference, but pineapple pizza 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:58.439 is wrong. If morality is just brain chemicals, 00:03:58.539 --> 00:04:02.219 then no action is objectively good or bad. It's 00:04:02.219 --> 00:04:05.319 just neurons firing in someone's head. So why 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.360 should we care about their opinions? Example, 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.960 why this is impossible. Let's apply evolutionary 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.620 morality to real life. Imagine two people debating 00:04:15.620 --> 00:04:19.300 whether murder is wrong. Person A, murder is 00:04:19.300 --> 00:04:23.240 always wrong. Person B, no, morality is just 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:27.220 brain chemistry. Wait, stop right there. If morality 00:04:27.220 --> 00:04:31.079 is just brain chemicals, that means... Murder 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.480 isn't truly wrong. It's just another random neuron 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:37.560 firing pattern. You can't actually say anything 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.079 is evil because it's just a survival strategy. 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:44.399 Any moral disagreement is meaningless because 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.180 it's just one brain fizzing differently than 00:04:47.180 --> 00:04:50.019 another. This is what's called a self -refuting 00:04:50.019 --> 00:04:53.660 worldview. It destroys itself. If morality is 00:04:53.660 --> 00:04:56.300 just survival instinct, then there's no such 00:04:56.300 --> 00:04:59.730 thing as justice. No true right or wrong, and 00:04:59.730 --> 00:05:02.730 no reason to even have laws. But funny enough, 00:05:02.930 --> 00:05:06.029 atheists still call things right and wrong all 00:05:06.029 --> 00:05:09.889 the time. The Bible had it right all along. While 00:05:09.889 --> 00:05:13.189 atheist scientists keep rewriting morality to 00:05:13.189 --> 00:05:16.550 fit their survival theories, the Bible has had 00:05:16.550 --> 00:05:20.290 the answer from the start. Romans 2 .15, the 00:05:20.290 --> 00:05:23.189 law is written on their hearts. That's why we 00:05:23.189 --> 00:05:25.959 all instinctively know right and wrong. Micah 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:30.459 6 .8. Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with 00:05:30.459 --> 00:05:34.500 God. Not do whatever helps you survive. Isaiah 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:38.720 5 .20. Woe to those who call evil good and good 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.420 evil, like moral relativists. Meanwhile, science 00:05:42.420 --> 00:05:45.699 says, Dude, morality is just an illusion, but 00:05:45.699 --> 00:05:47.720 let me tell you why you're wrong and I'm right. 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:51.779 Yeah, no thanks. Final thoughts. Who's really 00:05:51.779 --> 00:05:55.139 trusting science? Science depends on order, truth, 00:05:55.420 --> 00:05:58.540 and logic. Evolution says morality is just an 00:05:58.540 --> 00:06:01.920 accident of survival. Atheists argue as if morality 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.620 actually matters. But they still say good and 00:06:05.620 --> 00:06:08.839 evil don't exist objectively. So tell me again, 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:12.180 who's really trusting science here? If you believe 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:14.759 some things are truly right and truly wrong, 00:06:14.980 --> 00:06:18.339 guess what? You just admitted morality isn't 00:06:18.339 --> 00:06:20.959 just a survival trick. It's real and objective. 00:06:21.709 --> 00:06:24.189 But don't worry, the atheists will be back tomorrow 00:06:24.189 --> 00:06:28.009 using absolute moral claims to prove that morality 00:06:28.009 --> 00:06:31.889 is just a social construct while cashing their 00:06:31.889 --> 00:06:32.870 research grants.