Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists. By Benjamin Wiker. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2002, 321 pp., $20.00 paper. At its core the modern scientific endeavor is a philosophical and theological venture. It is for this reason that "every distinct view of the universe, every theory about nature, necessarily entails a view of morality; every distinct view of morality, every theory about human nature, necessarily entails a cosmology to support it. . . . There is no way to escape the interrelationship of science and ethics, and no one should be relieved of the responsibility that this ...

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