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1. “Perhaps most importantly, if the world and its creatures developed purely by material, physical forces, it could not have been designed and has no purpose or goal. ... this seems to be the message of evolution.” Douglas J. Futuyma, Science on Trial (New York: Pantheon Books, 1983), pp. 12–13
u “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes (New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1977), p. 144.
2. “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1995), p. 133.
3. Conway Zirkle, Evolution, Marxian Biology, and the Social Scene (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959), p. 86.
4. Some evolutionists even say that rape is a consequence of evolution. Professors Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer, in their book, A Natural History of Rape: Biological Basis of Sexual Coercion (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2000), say that rapists, on average, have more children than other men; that is, they have greater “reproductive success.” Therefore, after millions of years, rapist tendencies have spread within the human population. “Good,” according to evolution theory, is whatever enhances “reproductive success”; “good” has nothing to do with morality. The fields of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, taught in many universities, popularize and legitimize such ideas.