We Are Just Machines, So Some Chemical In Me Says

Why presuppositions and worldviews are important to discuss. Ideas have consequences. Here is a quote from an evolutionary website:

Retribution as a moral principle is incompatible with a scientific view of human behaviour. As scientists, we believe that human brains, though they may not work in the same way as man-made computers, are as surely governed by the laws of physics. When a computer malfunctions, we do not punish it. We track down the problem and fix it, usually by replacing a damaged component, either in hardware or software.

So men are just chemicals and machines that respond to their environment in a mechanicalistic manner. Is this not fatalism in the realm of naturalism? The creation determining its own impersonal fate? Perhaps Richard Dawkins wrote this piece while under the influence of the lack of good chemicals in his brain. Perhaps he was sniffing too much grass in his backyard and it forced him to write such nonsense. Do these people even think or is thinking not really happening in their minds?

Never mind that man is a person. Never mind that he is made in the image of God. Never mind he is bent by sin in every part of his being.

The idea that punishment or retribution needs to rehabilitate man is nonsense. When judges start letting rapists off because they see punishment as not solving the problem of evil, then we truly have gone down the evolutionary rabbit trail too far.

By the way, punishment is not meant to be rehabilitative for the ungodly. It is meant to glorify the holiness of God and to proclaim righteousness. When God (the Biblical Triune God) is not the presupposition of a society's laws, then chaos will follow as a result of God's wrath against sin.

BTW:

I forgot to ask when I originally posted this, "Why is someone's moral behavior wrong?" On what basis does Richard believe anything wrong ever occurs? If nature determines all things chemically, could it be that some chemicals in his brain are making him think that someone's immoral actions are wrong? He might even be wrong in his perception since the chemicals in his brain may not be functioning properly. How would he ever know.? How did we ever even come up with the idea of morality in a chemically driven world? Why even think when we are not really thinking!!!

Epsitemology (how we know things) becomes absolutely problematic in an atheistc/naturalistic/evolutionary world.