Friday, April 24, 2026
4/24/202628 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
Part I (00:14 – 09:48)
Author of ‘The Naked Ape’ Dies at 98: The Legacy of the Zoologist Desmond Morris Who Saw Humans As Apes
- Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes by The New York Times (Douglas Martin)
Part II (09:48 – 13:56)
Is It Wrong For Christian Couples Who are Fertile to Adopt Instead? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (13:56 – 19:13)
Is It Wrong for a Christian to Donate His Body to Science? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (19:13 – 23:30)
Can You Be a Christian But Still Be Afraid to Die? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (23:30 – 27:38)
My Son is Called to Christian Ministry. Should He Pursue a Degree for Bivocational Work, Or Should His Degree Prepare Him for Ministry? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
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First 90 secondsAlbert Mohler· Host0:00
[intro music] It's Friday, April twenty-fourth, two thousand twenty-six. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Listeners to The Briefing know that I often draw attention to obituaries because often they tell us a story of a life that demands our attention. I'm speaking of an obituary that ran just in Wednesday's edition of The New York Times. Here's the headline: "Desmond Morris, Age Ninety-eight, Who Saw the Animals at Humans' Core, Dies." Okay, so he died at age ninety-eight. Desmond Morris, uh, was, uh, a, a major British figure, a major British author, but he became famous on both sides of the Atlantic for his book, published in nineteen sixty-seven, entitled The Naked Ape. He was basically arguing that to understand humanity, you need to understand that there is nothing in the image of God. There is nothing not produced by evolution. There is nothing special about us. We are just apes that put on clothes. Okay, that was a very huge, uh, bestselling argument back in nineteen sixty-seven. As a matter of fact, when I say huge, I mean huge. Uh, more than twenty million copies of the book were sold. That-that's, in, in the publishing world, that's astounding. Twenty million, that's, uh, that's bigger than the population of many countries. All right, so let's look at what we're talking about here. Desmond Morris, very interesting, was a zoologist. I'm