What kind of a case can we make for human rights, if human beings, like other animals, are the accidental products of blind material process? I do not see how a widespread belief in inalienable rights can be long maintained in such a perspective… After all, ancient societies, which had no conception of God-given rights, rewarded the elite and enslaved the rest. The logical thing to do, in an overpopulated world with scarce resources, is to “cull the herd.”
Terence L. Nichols, The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism (p. 16)
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