Without God and with evolution, then there is no intrinsic meaning to life. Things just happened and hey presto billions of years later I'm here! You're here! Just through a process of creation and breathing oxygen, drinking fluid, eating food, and surviving through other means such as being able to learn a skill which gets you money which makes you buy what you need to survive. Being in poverty is a fact, your genes are just not able to survive.
The more ability I have to survive, the more I survive. And generally that comes with power. The weaker we are the less we have to survive.
Life has nothing to do with truth or love or dignity. It is about power to survive. It is also about power to have more power.
Already in power? What do I need to do to stay in power? What do I need to do to gain more power?
But if there is no intrinsic meaning to life then why do believe murder is wrong? It can only be that murder has been powerfully thought to be wrong. And that wrongness has been powerfully created.
If there are a set of humans where murder is acceptable, then such has acceptability has been powerfully created, and hence allowable. Colatoral damage is a form of murder that has been accepted, through powerful forces. Abortion too. If sufficient people with sufficient power want to murder, they will.
However if God does exist, then everything has different values. Saving a human being from death has higher value than murdering them. And if God exists, we have the ultimate perfect judge for the ills of the world. It also means that ultimately the power we see before us is not the driving force. No, God is the driving force.
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