Why Jesus Apologetics

Part 3 brings the argument to its climax. Having exposed Darwinism’s historical and moral failures, we now confront its modern disguise — secular humanism — which still uses Christian moral vocabulary while rejecting its divine foundation.

In this section, we will show that:

Secularists unknowingly live on borrowed moral capital from Christianity. The Bible alone provides a coherent explanation of human unity and dignity. The message of Jesus Christ is not only spiritual but profoundly anti-racist and rehumanizing.

This final section will contrast the hollow morality of naturalism with the life-giving truth of the Gospel — the only worldview in which equality, love, and redemption make sense.

Modern Hypocrisy — Secularists Want the Fruit Without the Root

One of the greatest ironies of the modern age is that secularists, atheists, and evolutionists passionately affirm human equality, justice, and dignity — ideals that cannot logically exist within their own worldview. They have kept the fruit of Christian morality while cutting down its root. The moral language of “human rights,” “equality,” and “justice” sounds noble, but detached from the Creator, it becomes sentiment without substance, poetry without foundation.

If human beings are merely evolved animals — random by-products of blind evolutionary forces — then there is no rational basis to say one life has more worth than another. Under Darwinian logic, “fitness” determines value. Yet, modern humanists preach equality as if it were self-evident. This is not reason speaking; it is residual Christianity.

As historian Tom Holland rightly observes:

“Today, even as faith in God fades, the Christian revolution continues to structure our deepest assumptions. The very notion that every human being has inherent dignity is not an ancient or scientific idea — it is a Christian one.”

Tom Holland, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (London: Little, Brown, 2019), 32.

When secular evolutionists talk about equality, they are like a man sitting on a tree branch while sawing through its trunk — trying to enjoy moral fruits whose roots they deny. In pure evolutionary reasoning, might makes right. Nature knows no morality; it only knows survival. If the strong eliminate the weak, nature celebrates efficiency. But our conscience rebels because we are not mere products of nature — we are image-bearers of God.

Philosopher Francis Schaeffer exposed this contradiction decades ago:

“Modern man lives in a two-story universe. In the lower story, where he denies God, he finds meaninglessness. In the upper story, where he still speaks of morality and purpose, he borrows from Christianity without admitting it.”

Francis A. Schaeffer, Escape from Reason (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1968), 37.

This hypocrisy is visible in how evolutionists condemn racism. But Darwin’s theory, consistently applied, gives no moral reason why one race cannot dominate another — it only tells us what is, not what ought to be. Morality cannot emerge from molecules or derive from survival. To claim that racism is wrong is to appeal to an absolute moral law — but absolute moral laws require an absolute moral Lawgiver. Only the God of Scripture fits that description.

As Christian apologist C.S. Lewis observed:

“When you say that something is unjust, you must have some idea of justice. Where did that idea come from? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 45.

Thus, when secularists cry for justice or equality, they unconsciously testify that they live in God’s moral universe. Their very outrage is evidence for divine truth. They cannot escape the moral grammar of Christianity even when they deny its Author.

In the end, secular humanism and evolutionary morality collapse under their own contradictions. A worldview that reduces humans to accidents of biology cannot explain why it’s wrong to mistreat, enslave, or exterminate them. Only Christianity, with its doctrine of creation, incarnation, and redemption, gives an unshakeable foundation for human worth.

The secular world has tried to inherit the moral treasures of the Gospel without bowing to the God who gave them — but moral fruits cannot survive long once cut off from the living root of divine truth. The West still lives on Christian moral capital, but it is spending faster than it can replenish. And as history warns, once that capital runs out, the result is always dehumanization.

The Biblical Vision — One Blood, One Race, One Redeemer

Long before the modern world discovered DNA or genetic science, the Bible had already proclaimed a revolutionary truth: all humans belong to one family and share one bloodline. This declaration shattered every foundation of racism centuries before the theory of evolution even existed.

In Acts 17:26, the Apostle Paul boldly declared to the philosophers in Athens:

“From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth.”

This single verse dismantles the racial hierarchies that evolution would later construct. According to Scripture, there are not many human races — only one human race descended from one ancestor. The concept of “races” as separate biological species is a man-made illusion, popularized by 19th-century evolutionists to justify colonialism and slavery. The Bible, however, begins with creation — not competition — and ends with redemption — not elimination.

In contrast, Darwinian evolution describes humanity as the product of biological struggle, where natural selection favors the “fittest.” In The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin speculated that some “races” were closer to apes than others and predicted that the “civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races.” (See Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (London: John Murray, 1871), 201.)

These are not fringe interpretations — they are Darwin’s own words. His theory planted the intellectual seed for eugenics, racial hierarchy, and colonial conquest.

Yet, Scripture had already offered the world a vastly different story:

Every human being carries the image of God (Genesis 1:27). Every human being descends from Adam (Genesis 3:20). Every human being is equally fallen and equally redeemable through Christ (Romans 3:23–24). Every tribe, tongue, and nation will one day stand equal before the Lamb (Revelation 7:9).

This vision of unity is not abstract theology — it is radical anthropology. It redefines identity not by biology but by creation and redemption. Christianity alone explains why skin color, language, and culture do not determine value. Our worth comes from the Creator, not from our chromosomes.

Modern genetics has only confirmed what Scripture taught all along: racial categories are scientifically meaningless. Geneticist Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, stated:

“The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis. We are all members of one human family, descended from a common ancestor.”

Francis S. Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (New York: Free Press, 2006), 125.

It is astonishing that a 21st-century genetic discovery merely echoes a 1st-century apostolic sermon. Christianity got it right — not science, not evolution, not progressivism. The Bible has always been the truest anthropology of humanity.

Even in redemption, the message of equality shines brighter. At the cross, Christ demolished the ultimate wall that divides humanity — sin. The same blood that flowed from His veins became the atonement for every nation. As Paul declared,

“He Himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility.” (Ephesians 2:14)

In the eyes of Christ, there is no superior tribe, favored color, or dominant culture — only sinners saved by grace. The Gospel does not erase our diversity; it redeems it. Where Darwin saw competition, Christ offers communion. Where evolution saw survival, Christ offers salvation.

As theologian John Stott beautifully summarized:

“The unity of the human race is fundamental both to the fall and to redemption. As all fell in Adam, so all may be redeemed in Christ. No other philosophy of man can claim such perfect coherence.”

John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1986), 219.

Thus, the Bible stands as the most anti-racist book ever written. It refuses to define man by pigment, power, or progress. It defines him by personhood under God — equal in dignity, equal in depravity, and equal in potential for divine grace.

In a world fractured by evolutionary pride and racial division, the Christian message rings out timelessly:

“One blood, one race, one Redeemer.”

Evolution Dehumanizes, Christ Restores

Ideas have consequences. Few ideas have shaped the modern world as profoundly — or as destructively — as Darwinian evolution. What began as a theory of biology became an ideology of humanity. It subtly redefined what it means to be human: not a creation of God, but an accident of nature; not a moral being with eternal worth, but a temporary organism in a meaningless struggle for survival.

If you truly believe Darwinian evolution, you must also believe that there is no ultimate basis for morality, no real equality, and no sacred value in human life. Under that worldview, racism is not evil — it’s natural selection. Compassion is not virtue — it’s weakness. The weak perish, and the strong prevail. This is not caricature; it is the logical outworking of Darwin’s own theory.

History bore its fruits. Evolutionary ideology justified imperial conquest, eugenics programs, forced sterilizations, and even the Holocaust. Hitler himself declared, “I am simply acting according to the laws of nature by eliminating the weak.” He believed he was fulfilling Darwin’s vision of evolutionary progress. And while modern evolutionists reject such applications, they cannot deny the philosophical roots — for Darwin’s tree of life bore the poisonous fruit of racial superiority and dehumanization.

Christianity, on the other hand, proclaims a message that completely inverts Darwin’s hierarchy:

The last shall be first. The meek shall inherit the earth. The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.

Where evolution dehumanizes, Christ rehumanizes. Where evolution glorifies strength, Christ glorifies sacrifice. Where evolution divides, Christ unites.

Jesus did not come for the “fittest.” He came for the broken. He did not advance humanity through conquest, but through a cross. His blood speaks a better word than Darwin’s struggle — a word of grace, mercy, and reconciliation.

At the foot of the Cross, every race, class, and gender stand on equal ground. The same Creator who formed us in His image has redeemed us by His Son’s blood. That is the true and only foundation of human equality — not evolution, not progress, not science, but Christ alone.

Philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi summarized this contrast perfectly:

“The West’s belief in equality did not come from Greece or Rome or evolution — it came from the Bible. When the Bible dies, so does the idea that man has intrinsic worth.”

Vishal Mangalwadi, The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011), 112.

Without God, all that remains is biology. Without Christ, all that remains is competition. But with Christ, humanity regains its purpose, dignity, and destiny. The Gospel restores what Darwinism destroys: the sacredness of man as God’s image-bearer and the hope of restoration through divine love.

So, if you believe Darwinian evolution, then logically — not emotionally — you are left with a racist, purposeless, and amoral universe. But if you believe in Christ, you stand on the only foundation where love makes sense, equality is real, and human life is sacred.

The question is no longer scientific — it’s moral and spiritual.

Conclusion

The story of human worth cannot begin with evolution — it begins and ends with creation and redemption. Darwinism reduces man to dust without destiny; Christianity raises dust into divine purpose. Evolution says you are a random accident; Christ says you are a chosen image-bearer.

Every honest thinker must choose between two incompatible visions of reality:

A universe ruled by blind chance, where might makes right, or A universe ruled by a personal Creator, where love defines value.

The fruits of these worldviews are visible in history. Evolution birthed racism, eugenics, and dehumanization. Christianity birthed abolition, compassion, and equality. One leads to despair; the other leads to dignity.

The Cross of Christ stands as the greatest refutation of evolutionary pride. There, the Son of God died not for the fittest, but for the fallen. There, the Creator shed His blood to redeem His creation. In that moment, the measure of human worth was eternally defined.

Do you want a world defined by survival of the fittest or by the redemption of the fallen? Darwin’s world ends in the grave. Christ’s world begins with the Resurrection.

So if you truly believe in equality, compassion, and justice — you already believe in something evolution can never explain. You are borrowing from Christianity, often without realizing it.

The logic is clear:

If you believe Darwinian evolution, you must accept its racist implications.

If you believe Christ, you embrace the only foundation where all races become one family.

Evolution dehumanizes. Christ restores.

Darwin divides. Jesus unites.

Science describes survival; the Gospel declares salvation.

Choose not the theory that strips you of your humanity, but the truth that gives it back.

Peace be unto you!!!