Another Difficulty with the Darwin Mythos Attempt to Explain the Origins of Religion

…is that the same people who tend to buy this hogwash are major enthusiasts for self-extinction. Here, for instance, is somebody named Steven Kotler, author of West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief, offering his impassioned plea (which will only be heard by other ZPG ninnies like himself), for a five year ban on children.

Darwin Catholic has a succinct summary of the fruits of this kind of thinking: “Because most philosophies that frown on reproduction don’t survive.”

Now the curious thing is that the most devout believers in the Darwin Mythos, the ones who see it is as the all-explaining Theory of Everything, tend to simultaneously invoke it as an explanation for religion, as the founding myth of atheism, and as the Telos toward which all things are tending. So they naturally look on their own atheism as the Next Phase In Evolution. Yet they never seem to notice that The Next Phase in Evolution is utterly dominated by the sort of hand-wringing anal retentives who feel a moral obligation to the Planet to make themselves extinct. That’s just one of the reasons I feel compelled to ask these self-appointed members of the Vanguard of Natural History if they are really so sure they are Where Human Evolution is Going and not simply genetic freaks as doomed to extinction as the dodo.

For good measure, I sometime like to ask them why they feel a “moral obligation” at all since that is to derive an Ought from an Is. But the poor dears have enough on their plate.