Are we all just 'dancing to the DNA' as Dawkins has put it, or are human beings more than amoral biochemical machines? Is there right and wrong and thus a moral absolute to guide our actions, or is such talk purely sentimental nonsense? It is said about the French atheist Voltaire that when his atheistic friends came over to dinner they were forbidden from speaking about their atheism in front of the hired servants who waited on table. Voltaire was fearful that if they should hear such godless talk and become convinces of what was said, they might steal his belongings and murder him in his sleep. He realised that the moral law and belief in future accountability for our actions kept his hired hands from crime! Immanuel Kant said that the moral law within filled him with 'ever new and increasing wonder and awe.'

We simply cannot have a moral society without God; history has proved it. The Bible teaches that we are created by God in his likeness - moral, spiritual and free - with his law of love planted in our consciousness. Jesus taught that, far from 'dancing to the biological law of the DNA', we have God's law of love to obey that requires love both for God and for our neighbour. The apostle Paul taught, 'In Him [God not DNA] we live and move and have our being' (Acts 17:28). We are infinitely valuable, created by God to know him.

Taken from A Time to Search, by Joe Boot, p. 112