Chilen mainarit VS Darwinismi

Kristillisellä BreakPoint-sivustolla ollaan tunteellisella päällä. Chilen dramaattinen kaivosonnettomuus on nostanut esiin yllättävää altruismia. Chuck Colson kertoo hienon tarinan loukkuun jääneistä kaivostyöläisistä.

This past weekend, the rescue shaft was completed. Given its width, the miners will have to be removed one at a time. Since each trip will take approximately an hour, it will take the better part of two days to remove all the miners. Who should go first? The weakest?

Well, there was still one more twist in store for Chile and the world. A surprised Health Minister Jaime Manalich told AP that the miners “were fighting with [authorities] yesterday because everyone wanted to be at the end of the line, not the beginning.”

A news man from the scene choked up while reporting it. You know who else should be surprised: Darwinians. They believe the race has evolved through survival of the fittest. Neo-Darwinism cannot explain altruism like that displayed by the miners. At best, it can offer a superficially plausible explanation for what they call “cooperation.”

Miten koskettava tieto. Kaivostyöläiset osoittavat uskomatonta uhrautumista kilpaillessaan siitä kuka karistaa viimeisenä kaivoksen pölyt naamastaan. Miten kunniallinen periaate. *pyyhkii kyyneleen silmäkulmasta* Selvästikään darwinistit eivät kykene selittämään miten tuollainen uhrautuneisuus ilmestyi ihmisiin. *niisk* Selvästikään ihmiset eivät ole vain "ajeltuja apinoita" vaan jotain parempaa.

Colson jatkaa.

But caring about someone outside your immediate kinship group, much less being willing to sacrifice your well-being for theirs? Never. Richard Dawkins’ “selfish gene” would demand to be the first person out of that mine. The “selfish gene” would not have even made the miners’ rescue a national priority. It would have settled for superficially-plausible mourning.

Aito darwinisti kampittaisi muut mainarit päästäkseen ensimmäisenä turvaan pinnalle.

Mikä on parempi selitys kaivostyöläisten osoittamalle altruismille?

A far more plausible explanation is suggested by the items that the miners asked be sent down to them while they waited for rescue: a crucifix and other items associated with their Catholic faith. They told officials that they wanted to set up a shrine in the rescue chamber. They signed two flags for Pope Benedict and, to make sure he got at least one, gave them to different officials.

Vankka usko tekee miehistä uhrautuvaisia. Tai ehkä ei tässä tapauksessa. Guardian-lehdestä selviää miksi miehet kamppailevat viimeisestä sijasta.

During conversations with the miners tonight, they were asked to help officials agree the order in which they will be hauled to the surface.

Manalich said that several of the men expressed a desire to be the last man out in what he called "a completely admirable show of solidarity".

On further questioning, however, the men revealed the cause of the disagreement: a guaranteed place in Guinness World Records for the longest time a miner has ever been trapped underground. Given the complexities of the current situation, it is a record that many expect to be insurmountable.

Uhrautuvaisuus tarkoittaakin Guinnesin maailmanennätystä, jota ei helpolla rikota. Mainetta ja kunniaa. Se miehen tiellä pitää.

Thoughts from Kansasin kautta.