One of the great myths of secular humanism is that history reveals the existence of primitive men evolving from a common ancestor. You have probably seen the artistic rendition of how these primitive ape-like people looked using their stone tools. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is that, even if evolution were true, and it is not, man has not “evolved” very far if at all in his morals.
Not too many years ago missionaries went to New Guinea to convert the pagan and primitive people there. Cannibalism was still being practiced. Men would go into a village, capture a hostage by the hair, use a bamboo knife to slit open his stomach, pull out the intestines, cut off the fingers, and eat as much of the person as possible while the individual was still alive (Russell T. Hitt, Cannibal Valley, Hodder and Stoughton, 1963).
It is still happening. In 1968 two missionaries, Australian Stan Dole and American Phil Masters, were captured, cut up, and eaten. During Christmas 1974, four Dutch families were killed and eaten by aborigines in the Jayawijaya Mountains. In 1976 there was the killing of a priest and his twelve companions. It allegedly happened because the missionaries tried to ban the aborigines from hunting for skulls and because they burnt the fetuses of the natives.
As horrific as all that is, it pales in comparison with so-called modern civilized nations that cut living people day after day. In the United States of America the average slicing up of humans amounts to one and a half million per year, and it all done under the protection of the law. That is what abortion is. Abortion is the cutting up of people alive and sucking out the bits and pieces of their bodies.
Why did such butchery happen in “primitive” societies like Papua New Guinea? Why does it continue to happen on a daily basis in “civilized” societies? The answer is this. Man has embraced an evolutionary concept that rejects God and His absolutes. When this is done the natural corruptions found in the human heart will be manifested without shame and legalized. Jesus explained what the natural state of the human heart is. Matthew 15:19, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies."
While the public schools continue to teach the lie of evolution, the Bible presents the devolution of man. Originally created in the image of God and without sin, man transgressed the known will of the Lord and went from an exalted state to a lower state of existence. Conservative theologians refer to this as “The Fall”. That is the bad news. The good news is that despite the ruin of man, there is redemption in Christ through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. However, for regeneration to take place the primitive state of modern man has to be acknowledged. Individuals must look inward and confess their sinfulness, and then look upward and plead for God to be merciful to them as sinners. Herein is the hope of salvation. There are consequences for rejecting God, His grace, and personal salvation. One manifestation of the dismissal of God and His Moral Law is the cannibalization of our own children. The soul without God is the primitive modern man.
