Sunday, March 23, 10:30 am
Being Human –
Lynne Bonner with Ian Warrender, Worship Associate –
Humans are more often good than bad. You won’t hear much of this from news media, politicians and the entertainment world these days where anger, violence and hostility dominate the conversation. Survival of the fittest depends on strength and winner take all. It assumes that if you scratch the surface of our civility, underneath lies the true greedy self-serving species. But does it?
Scientists have come to believe that the fittest individuals and societies are often those that co-operate and collaborate with their neighbours, rather than out-compete them.
So why do humans get such bad press? What is our true nature – are we innately selfish or altruistic? In these fraught times, let’s take a deeper look at what it means to be human and give new meaning to the term humankind.