Wesley Huff

And I think if there is an objection that is truly impactful on Christianity in the atheist corner, it is the problem of evil and always has been because it's far more of an emotional and existential question than it is an intellectual question.

Now, part of the problem with it is that if we're talking about evil with a capital E, we're implying that there's a good with a capital G.

And so I think we do run into an issue when saying that evil exists or implying that good exists.

And if we're implying that good exists, we're implying that there's a moral law to adhere to to call the good good and the evil evil.

And if there's a moral law, then there has to be a moral law giver.

And that's where we come into issues with, is this subjective or is this objective?

I think that might suffice in certain instances.

However, it's still sort of smuggling in moral categories into a biological explanation.

So part of – I mean you read Richard Dawkins.

You read River Out of Eden and he has that section where he talks about we shouldn't expect to see any rhyme or reason, good or bad.

DNA neither knows nor cares.

DNA just is and we dance to its music.

And there's an aspect of Dawkins himself in that volume, at least at that time when he wrote it, articulating that at the end of it all, there is no such thing as actually – you can't call that parasite in that boy's eye.

Evil, you could say I don't like it, but to import this moral category of evil is actually to import an idea.

And this is actually what Dawkins was criticized by, by individuals like John Gray, the philosopher who taught at the London School of Economics.

And he says, you know, you're a really great biologist, but then you want to impart actual intrinsic value to people.

And if you're looking at a simple selfish DNA perspective, you can't actually ascribe that because your DNA, your selfish DNA exists to carry on its selfish DNA.

And so in one sense, that child has no bearing on you.

Now, it might have like a protective mechanism where you want to figure out why the child got the parasite and so you try to avoid that in order to not get the parasite yourself.

But science –