selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution” (cited in Morris, 412). Thus, human history is just one phase of the meaningless flow of evolutionary history. The influential evolutionary paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson put it bluntly: “Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind” (cited in Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin on Trial [Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1993], 116). Such a hopeless,