Suffering Is Unlikely to Be Seen as Beautiful If There Is No God
Naturalistic evolution cannot adequately explain why human beings see beauty and redemptive power in suffering
In Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation, philosopher Anthony O’Hear points out that—if natural selection is actually the sole explanation for human nature and behavior—our propensity to see beauty and redemptive power in suffering ought to have been eliminated. The stubborn persistence of this tendency in humanity points unavoidably to some reality greater than nature:
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