The Struggle to do Good

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I've already addressed this.

If evolution is more or less true, and if it's not guided by a moral agent, and if we're the products of evolution, then it makes little sense for me to possess this urge to not look at nude photos of unmarried women. To be clear, I do have a sex drive and I do want to look at pornography, but there's this underlying current (i.e. urge) beneath that drive telling me not to and that it's wrong. Why would an unguided and natural process that increases the survivability of species instill such an urge? That makes very little sense.

Also, I've grown up during a time when sexual images, acts, and talk are widely disseminated. Society isn't influencing me to not look at pornography. It's actually influencing me to look at it. Yet, I still have this urge to not look at it.

So if this urge isn't from nature or society then that seems to point to something transcendent and in Christianity it's called the Holy Spirit.

I see you conveniently skipped over huge portions in my last reply to you. Why is that? A lot of what I said would be a good reply to this last reply from you, but I won't repeat what I've already said.

The fact that you said, "If evolution is more or less true," instantly disqualifies you from making any judgments about evolution whatsoever. The ignorance that flows from that statement is palpable. I recommend reading a beginner's introduction to evolution, like The Selfish Gene, to clear up your obvious misunderstandings.

Here's a question. Pedophilia does not increase the survivability of a species. Socially, it is one of the most looked down thing one can be, and for good reason. So there's no evolutionary benefit, and no pressures from society, so why are people pedophiles? Is the ol' devil overpowering God? God is all powerful, so I doubt anything can overpower him. If we use your own standard, God must have given these pedophilic urges to these people, just as he's given other urges to you.