Theodicy and naturalism

Here's a snippet from a thought provoking post from the blog Khanya. It brings into the discussion evolution, the naturalistic fallacy, and the Christian response to both.

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In a recent blog post (Nouslife: Theodicy of the naturalists) Andii Bowsher raised a point that has puzzled me for some time: Loyal Rue, an evolutionary naturalist, says that scientists should not be too hasty in letting the rest of us in on the secret that religions are adaptive illusions that have enabled the human race to evolve and survive, because if we came to realise that we might abandon the illusions and thus lose their adaptive advantage. “If we expose our religions as the lies they really are, humanity might go extinct.”

And Andii’s puzzlement, like mine, is why, on a naturalistic account, we should care whether the human race goes extinct or not?

Kevin Parry, in a post on his blog a couple of years ago raises the same question in a slightly different way...

Complete article here.