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Meaning and Darwinism

February 7th, 2006 | 1 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

On Sunday morning, I attended church at Anaheim Vineyard to hear Dr. J.P. Moreland speak on anxiety, an issue I’ve dealt with repeatedly the last eight months. In his sermon, he argued that Darwin and the adoption of scientific naturalism has led to an irreconcilable difference between our need for permanence and transcendance (see: funerals) and the impossibility of any such concept in a cosmological framework that denies teleology. In other words, without purpose to events, there’s no purpose to life.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.