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Explanation of Good and Evil from Two Viewpoints (Christianity and Naturalistic Evolution)

Some who defend evolution as a worldview explain morality with the notion that human survival depends on it. For example, a clan that is infighting over resources would either function inefficiently--putting itself at risk--or destroy itself completely as enemies exploit the clan's weakened state. This means that at some point, for human survival, those who decided to cooperate with each other, rather than fight with each other, survived by working together. While it seems reasonable that natural selection chose the more cooperative among humanity and allowed the more selfish and less cooperative to die--that is, while evolution accounts for the good in people--I don't see how it accounts for the evil in people. If nature selects those who are cooperative, then why do we retain an uncooperative, selfish nature, too? Is this evil just a vestige of our old selves, like wisdom teeth or our appendix? Organs like these have no purpose, but evil does: its purpose is to destroy the self and others. It has a clear purpose, unlike vestigial organs. At least to my limited mind, I don't see how evolution explains evil.

Christianity, on the other hand, offers a more comprehensive explanation for our human nature, both morality in us and evil in us. God, whose nature is love (in 1 John 4:16), "created mankind in his own image," calling all that he made "very good" (Genesis 1:27, 31) However, when Adam sinned by eating the fruit that God required him to refrain from eating, God pronounced a distinct curse on each participant in the sin act. The serpent whom Satan embodied was cursed forever to crawl on its stomach and eat dirt, and would always be enemies with man and woman. The woman would suffer in childbirth and always desire her husband, who would rule over her. The man would have to toil for the food he grows because the ground itself would be cursed, the ground would produce thorns and thistles, and man would return to the dust from where he came. The man and woman were then cut off from Eden so that they could not live forever. (Genesis 3:14-24)* Jeremiah 17:9 shows that the source of our sin is the human heart: "The heart is more deceitful than all else and desperately sick. Who can understand it?" James 4:1 does, as well: "What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?"**

This explains what we see in human nature: both good and evil. The good comes from our being made in the image of God, an image we still imperfectly retain, but our evil comes from the original curse from the garden and our continual choice to sin. At least from what I see at the moment, Christianity offers a more complete explanation of good and evil than does naturalistic evolution.

*The idea of our retaining a good in us came in part from (gotquestions.org https://www.gotquestions.org/human-nature.html), as did the verses to explain the curse.
**These verses are illustrated as examples of human nature, found at "Knowing Jesus." (https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Human-Nature)
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