[Agamemnon]

Reason, as used in the original article, is a perfectly valid survival characteristic, in that humans who are unable to reason would not be likely to procreate.

There are plenty of human beings who, absent any good reason to do so, get drunk, stay out too late, bed the first equally un-reasoned human being of the opposite sex, only to learn in short order that they will soon be parents.

This is where the premise above, as stated, fails.

Reason alone is not necessarily "good." Reason must be informed against a standard with which to measure good and evil, right and wrong, favorable and unfavorable.

The question always comes down to who sets the standard based upon what metric that defines "good."

The Christian premise is that it is Jesus Christ, the Creator of the Universe (John 1:1-5), who sets both the standard and the metric for that which defines "good."

Absent Jesus Christ, the materialist has no credible, objective standard which defines "good." He only has himself.

It comes as no surprise then that the materialist is the definition of the self-serving, godless man .

FReegards!

[ifinnegan]

Yes.

No one answered when I asked for evidence.

The guys who procreate most are unmarried, on welfare, etc...Not the type who are best at reasoning things out.

But it is quite reasonable in the atheistic evolutionary view to have as many offspring with as many women as possible. That’s the most reasonable thing to do.

In other mammals, “reason” is defined as being physically superior to all other competitive males - ie being able to defeat them in a fight and thus able to procreate with the females.