The wedge document calls the proposition that human beings are created in the image of God one of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization is built. ... not as moral and spiritual beings, but as animals or machines who inhabited a universe ruled by purely impersonal forces and whose behavior and very thoughts were dictated by the unbending forces of biology, chemistry and environment.
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