http://www.icr.org/article/3513%%20/
Darwinism: Survival without Purpose
by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.*
Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life...life has no
higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA...life has no
design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless
indifference.1 --Richard Dawkins
Evolution is "deceptively simple yet utterly profound in its
implications,"2 the first of which is that living creatures "differ
from one another, and those variations arise at random, without a plan
or purpose."3 Evolution must be without plan or purpose because its
core tenet is the natural selection of the fittest, produced by random
copying errors called mutations. Darwin "was keenly aware that
admitting any purposefulness whatsoever to the question of the origin
of species would put his theory of natural selection on a very
slippery slope."4 Pulitzer Prize author Edward Humes wrote that the
fact of evolution was obvious but "few could see it, so trapped were
they by the human…desire to find design and purpose in the world." He
concluded: