Meeting of 27 June ‘Altruism’
In the debates between Christian apologists and the ‘New Atheists’ one of the issues that has arisen is how evolutionists can explain the existence of altruism – ‘the practice of unselfish concern for the welfare of others’. If Natural Selection is true the Christians argue there is no accounting for this phenomenon since it does not seem to advantage the altruistic human and in extreme cases can lead to their death. In this session we shall be led in our discussion by our member Robyn Murray who is a clinical psychologist.