Just because it happens in nature, doesn’t make it morally right

                Recently, a gay, Muslim, drag queen (yes you read that right) was featured by buzz feed. In the interview, this person claimed that quantum mechanics helped them to understand that gender was on a spectrum and it helped them come to grips with their identity. InspiringPhilosophy had a Facebook post describing this and had a short snippet on how this reasoning is flawed. I have also made comments like this when I talk about science, faith, and morality regarding various specific topics, such as whether or not homosexuality is genetic. What I would like to do today is to bring these threads together and expound a bit on this topic of morality as we understand it as Christians vs. what we observe in nature.

                We can see all sorts of things in nature that we can say are morally good, like mice supporting each other through a maze. We can also see things in nature that we as humans would say are morally bad, such as male sharks or dolphins raping their respective females, or lions killing the offspring of their rivals. We can look and see all sorts of “morality” in nature. I use quotations only because the rest of nature isn’t under the moral laws from the moral covenant that humanity has with God. Nature is a creation of God, but we have the ability to perform certain actions, but these certain actions should not be done under the moral law that God has written on our hearts (Romans 2:15).

                So just because we can observe behavior in nature, such as murder, greed, bullying, rape, homosexual relationships doesn’t mean that our moral laws from God are bad for us and unnatural. We can pursue this reasoning in multiple avenues. Firstly, just because we can observe it in different species, doesn’t necessarily mean that those behaviors are beneficial, though I grant further studies could support this idea. Secondly, it could also be shown that the moral laws that God has handed to us are actually beneficial for living a good life here, which some studies have been done to demonstrate just this.

                I can borrow from a surprising speaker for this blog, Dr. Richard Dawkins. He has stated, with surprising accuracy, the nature of science and the observations that we see in nature. Speaking on eating placentas, Dr. Dawkins states that science can tell us what is going on in the process, what a placenta is and so on, but science cannot tell us if this process is morally right or wrong. So Dr. Dawkins has beat me to the punch of this post, science cannot inform us on morality. That takes ethics and philosophy.

                So when someone tries to use science to justify their moral choices, keep in mind that they are masquerading this “science” as philosophy. Sure, they may have data, but that still takes a human mind and reasoning to come to their conclusions. Be sure to analyze all arguments so that we may take all thoughts captive for Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). May God bless you and have a good rest of your day.