Christian Worldview Concepts

Medical Practitioners

The Clash of Worldviews

We must realize that the dominant worldview of modern medicine is naturalistic, holding that the ultimate reality is material-energy shaped by chance. Such a worldview will always bring forth results that are not only relativistic, and not only wrong, but which will be inhuman. Because of its false view of ultimate reality, the naturalistic view of the world not only does not have a basis for respecting the uniqueness and dignity of the individual person, it is actually ignorant of what or who human beings really are. This is particularly troubling when such a worldview is put to work on human beings.

For example, there is a growing segment of the medical community that is extremely optimistic about the future of genetic engineering as a means of improving the human race (eugenics). If a consensus among the majority in society emerges that utopian eugenics is a defensible social policy, then that society needs dissidents who will question the goals and motives of genetic practitioners, lest it, too, dissolves into the highly criticized practices of the Nazis. However irritating and shrill the voices of dissent may be, those who assume the responsibility of designing and implementing social, educational, economic and legal structures that are sharply protective of eugenic interests must be willing to accept that such scrutiny is the price to be paid for the power they wield.