Do you consider yourself "a random collection of molecules...the end process of a mindless process"? If so, nothing that you do really matters. No wonder morality and civility is under attack in our culture. This kind of teaching is ultimately destructive of personal relationships, marriage, family and civil society. It is nothing new. Those who think that recent scientific discoveries have created a new intellectual environment are ignorant of history.

John's gospel makes this clear in an echo of Genesis 1:1. "In the beginning was the Word." (John 1:1) God spoke the cosmos into being: "And God said". In his all-powerful Word, God created. This world was created by the Word, why? So that the Word could become flesh and dwell amongst us, and reveal the glory of the Father, full of grace and truth. (Genesis 1:14) Creation is connected and fulfilled in the Incarnation, in the revelation of Christ, for our salvation.

Jesus drew upon this history when he fed the five thousand with five loaves and two small fish. People started to follow him because they ate the loaves and were looking to him to fill their bellies, to meet their physical needs. He told them, "Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you...I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the true bread from heaven.

I think this is what Paul was counseling Timothy to do in 2 Timothy 2:14-26. He warned him "against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen...Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful."