Q. To me, one of your strongest arguments is the argument from how people world-wide seem to be hard-wired to be concerned about justice and fairness issues. Please explain why you see this as such a strong argument for God’s existence. And why does this strong sense of absolute right and wrong in regard to some things suggest that it comes from somewhere other than the upward evolutionary spiral of life? After all, the survival of fittest doesn’t much seem to comport with the survival of the innocent or the vulnerable.
A. When I test worldviews, I ask certain basic questions. Among those are, “Does it adequately explain the world?” “Does it adequately explain me?” “Is it livable?” Using those questions as guidelines, I find that unbelief utterly fails the test for validity. From the earliest age, children are heard saying, “That isn’t fair!” The world from beginning to end recognizes and gives lip service value to what is “fair” or just. It is a virtue that is hard-wired into our brain. Why? Why are any deeply rooted convictions of right and wrong existing? If it is a charade that has no basis other than some arbitrary cultural convention, then all of society can crumble. It must have some tie to a greater right and wrong to infuse it with meaning.
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