The late novelist Walker Percy contends that most people today tell themselves an incoherent story about being human. On the one hand, we hearken to the authority of the scientists’ story: to be human is to be an organism in an environment endowed genetically (perhaps through evolution) with certain needs and drives. Yet these same people often believe another story as well: that humans are endowed with certain unique properties—inalienable rights, reason, value—that yield an (almost!) sacred dignity. Taken together, says Percy, these two stories conflict with, if not contradict, one another. — Vanhoozer
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:24:29 +0000
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