Evolution: The most dreadful blow to the human ego???

I am reading a new book, Family Evaluation, by Michael Kerr and Murray Bowen. Murray Bowen came up the Bowen Systems theory, or Family Systems Theory as it has come to be known.

Family Systems Theory essentially tries to explain human behavior in the context of the various systems that we are a part of, such as our family system, our employment system, etc. I knew that the theory was deeply imbedded in an understanding of evolutionary theory, but I didn’t realize how much until beginning to read this book.

As it unfolds how the theory was developed, Kerr wants to make sure that we understand the importance of evolutionary theory, so he quotes Loren Eiseley’s book, The Immense Journey, where Eiseley writes, “…(Darwin) engineered what was to be one of the most dreadful blows that the human ego has ever sustained: the demonstration of man’s physical relationship to the world of lower animals.”

That statement shocked me! The thought that evolution was the most dreadful blow that the human ego has ever sustained. I personally don’t buy the evolutionary theory. It doesn’t make sense to me for a variety of reasons that won’t get into here. Still, I suspect that they may be overstating the significance of the theory of evolution. And for the purpose of the book, any statements they bring up proving evolution can just as easily be explained by the fact that animals and humans have a common creator, so they are similar.

I believe in the Bible, and I think that there is teaching in the Bible that deals a much more dreadful blow to the human ego than Darwin ever intended. Statements like our being created in the image of God, balanced with the statements that say none are righteous, all have sinned and fallen short.

God has created mankind to have a perpetual relationship with himself. But we are so self-occupied and self-centered that we rarely think of God. He asks us to trust in Him completely, yet we continue to struggle and suffer because we won’t call on the one that can deliver us. That should convict our egos far more than any theory of evolution...