Darwin

I listened recently to Tim Keller's sermon on good, evil and suffering and was very taken by his clarity. His take on the violence of nature set me thinking.
Darwin is being remembered this year. He is the father of modern Biology and his synthesis of what he understood he was observing and the philosophy of those around him has come to be a truth of our time.
Natural Selection is a soulless mechanism, driving nature to persevere in, exploit and adapt to environments. Nature is violent, and the strong and fittest are able to exploit and master their environments often to the detriment of other organisms.
In effect, Darwinism provides an ugly truth, driving the natural and social order we see. God is taken out of the picture and so provision is replaced by competition and what should be opposed tolerated. The surface truth becomes the truth.
It is true that each of us and every organism is a miracle of survival and according to Darwinism our existence marks us out as being in the lineage of the strong; we owe our existence to the robustness of our genes and our posterity depends on us being able to pass on the information we have received. We are the successful.
Yet deep down we sense a purpose beyond this scenario. Intuition points us to this being a surface truth. Our awareness of ourselves and this inbuilt knowledge indicates a significance to our lives that is deeper than Darwinism describes. Indeed we behave and act as if every moment matters and is significant; we care.
It is a rare person who dispenses with our sense of humanity; justice, beauty and mercy, for the sake of the doctrine of the survival of the fittest. But this humanity is of little purpose if nature is all there is and is actually dangerous if it impedes the progress of the strongest. It spells our doom. If our purpose is to adapt to survive and Darwinism is our root belief, it is folly to resist this and the individual must be sacrificed for the greater good, which is served best through the preservation of the freedoms of the strong. That is natural justice. But actually we hate those who appease evil and disdain those who acquiesce to wrong doing for the greater good. Nixon famously believed that as president he was above the law and we think him sick, deluded by paranoia.
Darwinism does not give us the answers to our intuition that we have significance. Without God, Darwinism has been used to legitimise the worst atrocities and philosophies the past 200 years have had to offer; Marxism, Nazi ism, racism and eugenics.
If my friend suffers I will not succumb to fatalism, I will fight for his life, and I will not abandon him or God because I reason I am more than flesh. To think otherwise I think is delusional.