Can It Be Bad When It’s So Useful? Management Science as a Carrier of Modernity

Abstract

When a Time magazine feature on “Our Cheating Heart”1 contended that evolution shaped human love and caused marriage to self-destruct, it triggered a vigorous chorus of objections. Human beings, the article argued, were designed to fall in love but not to stay in love. This thesis from evolutionary psychology drew out the fire in readers of Christian persuasion because the challenge was direct and clear. It was a frontal assault on the sanctity of marriage and the reality of sin. The response was an unflinching counter-offensive.