For the sake of the argument, let’s assume … and let’s follow the idea to its logical conclusion.

So, what do we do with people who don’t believe what we believe? It helps to understand them. If we assume, for the sake of the argument, that they are correct, we might understand what they are thinking. Of course, in modern culture, being fair and trying to understand is not popular.

Being thoughtful and reasonable is not popular, in our time.

I am writing as a Christian, and there are people who think I am stupid, if I believe those things. I don’t recommend saying the same thing about them. A conversation could sound like an argument in a children’s sandbox. 

I stopped doing that years ago.

Atheists, for example, might wonder why we do believe, or they might dismiss us as wrong and foolish. Here is a question that we should all understand: If God is all-powerful, and all-loving, why is there so much corruption and suffering in this world. If God cares, and if God has the power, why don’t our worst problems just go away?

For some people, this is clear evidence that there is no God. Here is an example:

This is news, on the Internet these days. How can we believe in God, and not wonder why we still have problems, like corruption and suffering? Wouldn’t a poerful and loving God fox those problems for us?

So, for the sake of the argument, let’s assume that they are correct. We have a problem: GOD … CORRUPTION & SUFFERING. If there is a God who is powerful and who loves us, why does the second part exist?

That is a good question.

If we assume the no-God side is correct, for the sake of the argument, we have a new formula: [NOTHING] … CORRUPTION & SUFFERING. The problem with the argument is, we still have the original problem, with or without God. If we stop believing in the existence of God, some other forces still exist in the world and maybe they should fix our problems.

Instead of NOTHING, we could have Biological Evolution, for example. That force is also known as the survival of the fittest. So, for the sake of the argument, let’s assume that we came to this time in history from a biological accident, and humans evolved from monkeys. If we are moving to better stages in life, on this planet, we have a problem. Evolution, a force that is supposed to take us to better places, has brought us to a place with CORRUPTION & SUFFERING.

How is that the survival of the fittest? The process is supposed to solve out problems, and take us to better places.

We can believe in any God, or any force of nature, but we still have to explain why the force that we believe in has not solved our problems. How do Atheists explain that?

There is a theory, apparently from a professor in Oxford University, that human beings are moving towards extinction, and we will be replaced by another intelligent species. Biological evolution is almost always taught as something that happened in the past. We have probably all seen the famous picture of evolving humans, with a hunched over and knuckle dragging ape on the left, and a progression of human shapes, ending in a tall and handsome modern human at the front of the line.

Notice, that the picture of human evolution always ends with us. It almost seems like we are supposed to believe that evolution stopped with us, and life is no longer evolving. According to the Theory of Evolution, there is no end point and the process continues. Life forms will continue to adapt and evolve. 

That means evolution has a future. We are moving into something new, and unknown.

This is called Darwinian thinking, and it has caused some terrible problems, in the last hundred years. Eugenics, for example, was a popular idea, that told us to surgically sterilize some people, mostly children, because they were not fit to reproduce. This was a popular idea in western democracies like the U.S., Canada and Britain. There are some angry people today, who tell us that legalized abortion first focused on some racial groups, like blacks, to reduce their numbers. 

That’s an interesting can of worms that I don’t want to open here.

We also have the three greatest mass murders in history, the Communists, mostly in China and the Soviet Union, and the Nazis. Many millions died when Communist regimes struggles to lead us into their vision of a better society. That was a kind of guided evolution, and casualties were expected.

The Nazis tried to guide human evolution by exterminating some races. We know the stories of death camps, with gas chambers.

The subject of our Darwinian future has been mostly ignored, since World War 2, but something has changed, and we are recovering from the embarrassment of mass exterminations. Imagine a Climate Change activist who is also an Atheist who believes in biological evolution, and not creation by God.

Let’s follow that to its logical conclusion.

According to evolutionary thinking, human beings could evolve themselves into extinction, like all species, including the dinosaurs, Climate change activists often believe that we could destroy ourselves, if we don’t save the planet. This has produced a new theory about the future of Darwinian Evolution. We will drive ourselves to extinction, and some other intelligent species will evolve to replace us. 

Strangely, Jesus, in the Bible spoke about the human race extinguishing itself, except that God will intervene and save us:

If those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. (Matthew 24: 22)

Here is a logical conclusion for biological evolution, with a consideration for uncontrolled climate change; the planet of the octopuses:

If you do an Internet search about the future of the world, and the domination of octopuses, you might be surprised by how popular this idea is. 

We might want to consider the possibility that Jesus was correct, when he told us about our spiritual creator, and when he told us that returning to God is a choice that we need to make, not something that is forced on us for our own good, like a species of bad children.

God will honor the choice that we make. That is a logical conclusion:

If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? (Matthew 16: 24 to 26)