Reply #2: I think it's because there's the implicit claim that there is no image [View All]

[Igel]

of God. If so, there's no way in which the 'image of God' is moral, as opposed to physical.

There is no sense in which a male monkey's behavior can be wrong, unless it's un-monkey-like (in which case 'wrong' is being used in a different sense). He can take the offspring of his intended mate with a different male and kill them to help provoke estrus in the female, and it's not immoral. He can also eat them, and it's still not immoral. Yucky, but natural--not immoral.

But what's natural for human being, and what's considered moral, tend to be two different things.

The objection to Hitler and Stalin, or to us being monkeys, is based in morality and rightness or wrongness of behavior. And that's where the argument has to be waged. Biology is a side issue; resolve the moral issue, and, really, the wind will be taken out of the anti-evolutionists' sails. Good luck.