: If we accept Darwin’s theory of natural selection, we must accept that the human mind evolved for survival, not for the pursuit of abstract "truth" or "freedom".
The core of Gray’s argument is that while scientific knowledge accumulates, human ethics and politics do not. He contends that: Straw Dogs by John Gray.epub
: Modern humanism is a "secular religion" built on the ruins of Christian myth, specifically the idea of universal salvation rebranded as "progress". : If we accept Darwin’s theory of natural
John Gray’s Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals is a provocative work of political philosophy that systematically dismantles the central myths of modern secular civilization. Written in a series of sharp, aphoristic essays, Gray argues that our belief in "progress" and human specialness is merely a secularized version of Christian faith—one that is fundamentally at odds with the reality of our biological nature. The Illusion of Progress John Gray’s Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and