HUMAN WIRING AND MORALITY

Scientists are following clues to find out what makes humans human:

Most recently [scientists] have been investigating circuitry rather than specific locations, looking at pathways and connections that are central in creating social emotions, a moral sense, even the feeling of free will.

There are specialized neurons at work, as well — large, cigar-shaped cells called spindle cells....

The body, it turns out, is as important as the brain. Dr. Antonio Damasio, a neurologist at the University of Iowa Medical Center and the author of the book "Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain," has pioneered the argument that emotions and feelings are linked to brain structures that map the body. From human social emotions, he said, both morality and reason have grown.

Findings such as this show us the glory and shame of science. Scientists can learn so much about the creation made in the image of God, yet they continue to embrace evolutionary ideas that insist morality is simply a human construct. Not only is the body and mind they explore created by God, but so is the morality they ultimately seek to undermine.