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By Darwinian lights, the classic sins, such as gluttony, lust, greed and envy, are the unchecked expression of impulses that arose by natural selection. During evolution, individuals with strong innate yearnings for food, sex and material goods did a better job of surviving and reproducing than individuals less drawn to...
In the essentially pre-technological context of human evolution, impulses such as gluttony, greed, even lust, were often blunted by scarcity. Only amid the material abundance that came with agriculture and grew thereafter could self-indulgence regularly reach grotesque levels. (Sodom and Gomorrah lay in the fertile plains. Their residents...
The biological roots of sin are not by themselves a news flash from the frontiers of science. More than a century ago, Thomas Huxley, Darwin's popularizer, lamented the fact that evolution has given all children "the instinct of unlimited self-assertion"--"their dose of original sin." But the past...
Pope John Paul II's Wednesday statement that "the theory of evolution [may be] more than just a hypothesis" generally sparked supportive reaction from Harvard's biologists, theologists and students.
The Pope made explicit a provision for conflicting beliefs in his statement, saying that "in truth, rather than of a theory of evolution, one should speak of theories of evolution."